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Bandits gang rape pregnant woman to death
A pregnant woman (name withheld) has been confirmed dead in Dnakundna village in Shiroro local government area of Niger state after she was gang raped by bandits.
The deceased woman was among the numerous villagers that were fleeing the village following threat of an attack by the bandits as a result of their (villagers) inability to pay N2million levy imposed on them by the bandits to allow them harvest their farm produce.
According to the deceased family source who spoke to Daily Sun in Minna on Monday, the latest incident occurred on Thursday morning, 24 hours to the expiration of an ultimatum said to have been given to the villagers by the bad guys to pay the N2million levy or risk a possible attack.
The villagers, especially women and children in their numbers decided to leave the village when they could not raise the N2million levy unknown to them that the bad guys had already being informed of their mass exodus and decided to lay ambush.
The deceased mother of three was not lucky as she and her three children ran into the ambush, and was matched into the bush, gang raped by seven of the bandits before abandoning her.
She was later picked up by the family members with bruises all over her body and rushed to the hospital where she died on Friday night.
It was further gathered that scores of the villagers were abducted by the bad guys during the invasion, even as the mass exodus continue with women and children leaving the village.
Although it was reliably gathered the bad guys group leaders, Dogo Jede, and Jack Bros were said to have left the areas due to the recent Joint Security operations, their “Boys” are still within the communities unleashing terror on the people.
They have continued to levy the People from one village to another demanding huge sums of money as condition to allow them harvest their farm produce.
