BEVERLY HILLS, June 07, (THEWILL) – A three-year-old pupil abducted along with others during bandits’ attack on the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School, Tegina, in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, has been confirmed dead.
The infant’s body was alleged to have been recovered on Sunday, a few kilometers from Tegina town, where it had been abandoned a few days after the kidnapping.
A resident of the neighbourhood, Tanko Zegi, father of Yazid, who is among the children abducted from the Islamiyya School, confirmed the child’s death to Leadership.
He speculated that the infant died as a result of the trauma caused by the bandits’ sporadic gunfire while escorting the victims out of the neighborhood.
He said, “One of the children the bandits took but later left behind, a few kilometres from Tegina, because he was just about three years old died due to the trauma. He was feverish and later died because of the fear of guns he saw.
“We have been begging the government to come to our aid but we have been abandoned.”
Zegi accused the government of neglect, noting that they had felt little or no impact from the state government since the children were abducted.
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