Some workers of the Niger State Ministry of Minerals Resources reportedly escaped mob attack as over 300 women and youths of Tutungo Community in Paikoro Local Government Area of the state allegedly attacked them.
The officials were on a fact-finding visit to the area to investigate the cause of death of two brothers at a mining site.
New Telegraph learnt that the action followed an alleged extortion of N25,000 by officials of the National Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), from members of the community.
It was gathered that the incident occurred after the two deceased brothers Zubairu and Sadiq Ibrahim, aged between 20 and 25, died at a mining site at Kakaki village, Butu.
Findings have it that rather than helping or sympathising with the family over the loss, the NSCDC officials demanded and collected the sum of N25,000 from them, a development which prompted the aggrieved villagers to transfer aggression on the mining officials.