Bandits have reportedly demanded N200 million ransom to release the 56 farmers abducted in Adunu, Kwagana and adjoining communities in Paikoro Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State.
The abductees, among them women and children, have spent three weeks in captivity.
On Tuesday, residents said bandits called to inform them that one of the abductees had been killed, threatening to kill more people if ransom was not paid in time.
They said attacks had become incessant since the attack on Catholic Church, Kafin-Koro, in which Rev Fr Isaac Achi was gruesomely burnt to death.