Twenty-four hours after terrorists killed a nursing mother on the Pandogari-Allawa road in Shiroro LGA of Niger State, a seven-month-old baby boy named Habibu was found sleeping on his mother’s back.
TheHintsNews reports that the terrorists, called bandits by the locals blocked the Pandogari-Allawa road a day to Sallah and shot six passengers to death.
Among those killed were an SS 2 student of the Maryam Babangida Girls’ Science College, Minna, Hauwa Aliyu, and the mother of the baby to death.
However, the vigilantes in the area who went a day after the attack to evacuate the remains of the victims saw the baby that was strapped on her back sleeping.
The President of Lakpma Youth Assembly, Jibril Allawa, said the baby was one of the survivors.
His words: “Miraculously, the baby was one of the survivors of the attack in which six people were killed.
“Vigilantes who went the following day to evacuate the remains of the victims found the baby sleeping on his dead mother’s back.”
“The incident happened on June 27, and six people lost their lives. Maryam called and informed us that she was coming home for the Sallah.
“We told her to stay back in school and celebrate the Sallah there but she insisted that she wanted to come home and celebrate with us.
“One Abubakar Ismail, a 16-year-old, who sustained gunshot injuries on his chest managed to run some distance before he was rescued and is now receiving treatment in a hospital.”