{"id":43615,"date":"2026-08-24T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43615"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:56:55","slug":"video-appears-to-show-600-people-abducted-in-nigeria-mosque-attack-residents","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/video-appears-to-show-600-people-abducted-in-nigeria-mosque-attack-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Video appears to show 600 people abducted in Nigeria mosque attack: Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">An armed group posted a video showing what residents said were about 600 women, children and older \u200bpeople abducted in an attack on a mosque in Nigeria\u2019s \u200cnorth-central Niger State.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The video, posted on Sunday on Facebook and WhatsApp, showed large groups of people seated in a forested area surrounded by armed men. \u200bSeveral children could be heard crying in the background.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em><span class=\"x_spanWithBackgroundColor\">Reuters<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u200bcould not independently verify the authenticity of the video. \u2060Police and state authorities did not respond to requests \u200bfor comment.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mass kidnappings for ransom have become common in parts \u200bof northwestern and north-central Nigeria, where heavily armed gangs frequently raid villages, schools and highways.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The video surfaced two days after gunmen attacked worshippers at \u200bthe mosque in Dekara village during Friday prayers, taking people \u200baway in what residents said were simultaneous raids on several communities.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Police \u200chad \u2060earlier confirmed an attack on worshippers in the area but said they could not verify the number of people abducted.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the video, a gunman speaking in Hausa addressed families of \u200bthe captives and \u200burged them \u2060to identify relatives among the people in the footage.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;These are all your people. We are showing you \u200bthis video so that you can identify \u200byour family \u2060members, your fathers, mothers, children and relatives,&#8221; the gunman said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Resident Jamilu Ibrahim appealed to federal and state authorities to secure \u2060the release \u200bof the captives, citing the number \u200bof mothers with infants and children among those shown in the footage.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22510,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-43615","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"About 600 women, children and older \u200bpeople abducted in an attack in Nigeria","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43616,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43615\/revisions\/43616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}