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Mining union says six members died in NSCDC custody

Nigeria Union of Mining Workers President Musa Adamu Nasiru told a Niger State inquiry that six of 10 union members among 65 miners arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps died in custody; four survived. Nasiru said the state’s mineral resources commissioner informed him of the deaths, and he sent union members to confirm them.

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