Gunmen Killed 2 Guards, Kidnapped 2 Chinese Nationals At Zungeru Dam
From Mathew Jwantu,
Minna
Two Chinese Nationals were kidnapped, two guards killed and one other wounded when an armed men believe to be kidnappers storm the ongoing Zungeru Hydro Electric Power Dam project in Niger state.
The incident happened around 4pm at the the project site in Shiroro local government of the State.
Our correspondent reliably gathered that the workers were working on the connection of high tension extension from Zungeru Dam to Gusase community then suddenly an armed men in their numbers storm the place on motorcycles shooting sporadically to scare the people to carryout the mission unchallenged.
An eye witnessed told our correspondent that “we were shocked with the sudden appearance of the armed kidnappers with their very sophisticated weapons, we were confused and don’t even know what to do or say”.
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He added that in the process one of the Chinese worker was shot and one of our internal security guard we’re gun down and they left with two other Chinese workers, although he said he can’t say more than that for now because many people were just running into the bush and can not ascertain their destination at this moment.
However, the Secretary to the Niger State Government (SSG), Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmed Matane has confirmed the incident of the kidnapped victims but could not say anything about the number of persons killed in the process.
It was revealed that state government officials consisting of the SSG Ibrahim Matane and Commissioner for Local government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Internal security, Emmanuel Umar with security agents were on the ground assessment as at the time of filing this report.
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