In Shiroro LGA of Niger State, a seven-month-old baby boy named Habibu was found asleep on his mother’s back 24 hours after she had been shot dead by bandits on the Pandogari-Allawa route.
A day before Sallah, the bandits blocked the Pandogari-Allawa road and killed six people, including Minna, a student in SS 2 at the Maryam Babangida Girls’ Science College, Hauwa Aliyu, and the baby’s mother.
The president of the Lakpma Youth Assembly, Jibril Allawa, told the Daily Trust that the baby was one of the survivors of the attack in which six individuals were slain. The infant was discovered asleep on his deceased mother’s back by vigilantes, who went the following day to remove the victims’ corpses.
He explained that “The incident happened on June 27, and six people lost their lives. Maryam called and informed us that she was coming home for Sallah. We told her to stay back in school and celebrate the Sallah there, but she insisted that she wanted to come home and celebrate with us.
“One Abubakar Ismail, a 16-year-old who sustained gunshot injuries on his chest, managed to run some distance before he was rescued and is now receiving treatment in a hospital.”
