Terrorists Overwhelmed Us, Say Niger Police

The Niger State Police Command, has confirmed that terrorists attacked Agwara community in Agwara Local Government Area of the state early Sunday and overwhelmed them.

The command, however, said it could not contain the terrorists because “we were overwhelmed by the number of the terrorists.”

Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abdullahi Adamu Elleman, who confirmed that attack, said they used dynamite to blow up the police station in the town.

According to him, “We got intelligence that the terrorists were around the area, so, we moved all our weapons from the armoury. We confronted them for two hours but they overwhelmed us because of their number.”

Elleman said the terrorists were more than 150, adding that the gunmen after blowing up the police station moved to the UMCA church in the town and burnt part of the church.

According to the police boss, five persons were kidnapped before the terrorists disappeared with them into the Kainji National Park forest, adding that, “We alerted the army and we are after them.”

A Reverend in the Church, Yakubu Yohanna, confirmed the story saying, “We are just coming back into the town from our hiding places”

Yohanna confirmed that so far no life has been lost but they were waiting for our people to come out from hiding

Agwara is the local government where 230 teachers, pupils and students were abducted at Papiri town last year before the federal government rescued them.