Nine of the 50 persons who were kidnapped by bandits from the Madaka Market in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State are said to have died.

In addition to the 22 people who were slain in the aftermath earlier, nine additional people who were kidnapped have now died.

The majority of the victims were women who had been kidnapped last Thursday and were en route to the nearby forest in the Allawa area when the bandits carried out their heinous murders.

Seven people were killed in Kukoki village while moving into the jungle, and two more people died on the way, according to Isah Bawale Madaka, the district head of Madaka.

“They killed seven people in Kukoki village while they were entering the forest around Shiroro local government area in Niger State, and they killed two more people while they were moving towards the forest,” he claimed.

Madaka added that more than thirty bodies had already been buried, which begged the question of the bandits’ intentions given that they had not sought a payment for the people they have kidnapped.

He said he had been trying for the past three days to monitor the bandits’ route and figure out how to keep the people who were being kidnapped safe.

Support and condolences were extended to the injured victims by Hon. Modibbo, the representative of the Rafi/Shiroro/Munya Federal Constituency, and by the Emir of Kalgara, Alhaji Ahmed Attahiru Gunna.