Armed criminals who abducted a female realtor, identified simply as Esther, in Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State have reportedly killed her.

The victim was abducted on Monday, March 24, 2025, near the Admiralty University of Nigeria.

The Punch reported that Esther and three colleagues were at the location to inspect a piece of land when the bandits struck.

“They went for inspection, and they were on their way back when they were ambushed. The gunmen shot at the vehicle, and the others escaped while the girl was whisked away by the gunmen,” a source said.

One of Esther’s colleagues who escaped sustained gunshot wounds and is currently in critical condition at a hospital.

The spokesman of the Delta State Police Command, SP Bright Edafe, said officers sent to rescue the victim were ambushed, and one policeman was shot.

He said nobody died in the failed rescue operation. He also was unaware of Esther’s death.

Astrong 7.7 magnitude earthquake has rocked the Thai capital, shaking high-rise buildings and causing an apartment block to collapse.

The US Geological Survey and Germany‘s GFZ centre for geosciences said the incident was at a shallow 6.2 miles, with an epicentre in neighbouring Myanmar, according to preliminary reports.

The greater Bangkok area is home to more than 17 million people, many of whom live in high-rise apartments.

Shocking video has shown the moment workers fled as a building under construction collapsed as it was shaken by the force of the quake.

Alarms went off in buildings as the earthquake hit around 1.30pm local time, and startled residents were evacuated down staircases of high-rise buildings and hotels in densely populated central Bangkok.

They remained in the streets, seeking shade from the midday sun in the minutes after the quake.

Terrifying footage shows the moment an apartment block under construction collapsed in Bangkok

Workers fled in terror as the building gave way after being shaken by the force of the quake

Panicked residents stand outside an office building in Bangkok after the earthquake

People hug one another following the huge tremors that shook buildings in Bangkok

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

The quake was forceful enough to send water sloshing out of pools, some high up in high-rises, as the tremor shook.

The epicentre of the earthquake was in central Myanmar, 30 miles east of the city of Monywa.

There were no immediate reports of the effect of the earthquake in Myanmar, which is in the middle of a civil war.

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There was tension at lot 2 international market, Abakalili Ebonyi State on Wednesday, when a market ticket taskforce members and a soldier clashed.

The soldier and some of the taskforce members sustained varying degree of injuries during the clash

Trouble started when the taskforce members besieged the soldier whose name was given as Nwuzor Elias and asked him to pay N5,000 as loading and offloading fee in the market which he refused, leading to exchange of words between them.

“Ticket people just attacked me at International Market because I refused to give them 5,000 naira which they claimed it is for loading and offloading.”

“I told them that I’m not carrying anything and I’m not coming to carry anything that I’m only here to buy something and secondly I identified myself as a soldier to them”.

“They said nothing concerned them with being a soldier, that I should go to Port Harcourt and continue with my soldier work, that they are also Biafra soldiers

“Before I knew what was going on, they attacked me, injured me and I am presently at a hospital in Abakaliki.

“Before going to the Hospital, I went to the Barack and I reported my case and they wanted to arrest all of them but they have ran away because they heard about their coming including their cso”, the injured soldier said.

After the incident, a team of soldiers stormed the market in search of the taskforce members and arrested one of them while others took to their heels.