Northern senators urge FG to rescue victims abducted in Niger mosque attack

The Northern Senators Forum has called connected the Federal Government to urgently rescue residents abducted during an onslaught connected a mosque and adjacent communities successful Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State.

The forum besides urged the authorities to deploy much information unit to the affected areas and reappraisal information measures crossed Niger State and the North-Central portion to forestall akin attacks.

In a connection issued successful Abuja on Wednesday, the forum’s chairman, Senator Abdulaziz Yar’Adua, condemned the onslaught connected Kpenya Mosque and the communities of Gidan-Zana and Kpenya successful Dekara District.

The onslaught reportedly occurred during Jumat prayers erstwhile terrorists stormed the mosque astatine astir 2 p.m. and abducted worshippers.

Women, children and aged residents were among those reportedly taken away, portion immoderate villagers escaped into a adjacent forest.

Yar’Adua said the forum was peculiarly disquieted by reports that the attackers had planted landmines and abducted much residents to usage arsenic bargaining chips.

“This barbaric enactment has near america profoundly shocked and saddened,” helium said.

The legislator described the targeting of worshippers and susceptible agrarian communities arsenic cowardly.

“We, therefore, telephone connected t...