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The Digest:

Teacher Martha Matthias has recounted how bandits threatened to kill her crying infant during the mass abduction of 289 pupils from St. Mary's Catholic School in Niger State. According to Vanguard News, the teacher described the 1 am invasion where bandits pointed guns at her baby's forehead while ransacking their quarters, taking her husband captive among the victims transported into the forest.

Key Points:
  • Teacher Martha Matthias witnessed bandits threaten her crying baby with execution
  • Her husband was among those abducted during the school invasion
  • Bandits used three vehicles and multiple motorcycles for the operation
  • 265 victims remain captive: 239 are nursery/primary school children
  • 50 students managed to escape during transit to the forest
  • Area's dense Kainji National Park serves as a bandit hideout
  • School had previously avoided the 2022 attack through early closure
When the sanctity of childhood is violated at gunpoint, and a baby's cry becomes a death sentence, the deepest storms are measured in the silent terror of classrooms turned into crime scenes.

Sources: Vanguard News, PM News