There is palpable fear in Shiroro Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State as bandits gang-raped a pregnant woman to death last Thursday.
Newsbreak.ng learnt that the criminals resorted to the horrific act after some villages failed to meet up with the deadline for the payment of the N2 million levy imposed.
The bandits had imposed the levy on the communities before locals could harvest their farm produce.
The incident occurred in Dnakundna village in Shiroro last Thursday. Since then, tension has enveloped the area.
This news medium gathered that all steps taken by the villagers to raise the amount failed and therefore resorted to fleeing their ancestral homes to avoid being attacked by the bandits.
Unknown to the villagers, some informants within the villages had informed the bandits that they were planning to flee the area, so the bandits decided to lay ambush for them.
The deceased pregnant woman and mother of three was not however lucky as she and her three children ran into the ambush and were led into the bush with her children, gang-raped allegedly by seven of the bandits, and abandoned.
Available information indicates that after a frantic search by the villagers, her body was found in the bush with bruises on her private part and other parts of her body and rushed to the hospital where she eventually gave up the ghost last Friday night.
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