Niger Bandits Kill Emir’s Son, Others, Rob, Abduct Travellers

Masuga village near Kontagora town, headquarters of the Kontagora Local Government Area of Niger State, was thrown into confusion on Wednesday as bandits shot the son of the Emir, Alhaji Bashar Namaska, dead in his father’s farm. Apart from the Emir’s son, some of the people working with him in the farm were also said to have been shot dead by the bandits, who rustled unspecified number of cattle in the farm. The bandits also waylaid commercial and private vehicles plying the road, collected their phones, money and other valuables. They beat up those without cash and valuables and took others away. The late Bashar, who was the Sardauna of Kontagora, had been holding forth for his father, Sarkin Sudan, who had been sick.