Nigeria, Oct. 22 -- Arms smugglers have killed a Nigerian Customs errand boy around Babana, a Niger State village along the border with Benin Republic.

After gunning down the boy, the arms smugglers drove into the Kainji National Park, raising suspicion they were on a mission to supply weapons to Ansaru terrorists operating between North-central Nigeria and northern Benin.

Popularly known as "camp boys", customs errand boys are unofficially engaged by officers at border areas and ports, a practice that the Customs Service deemed as a threat to national security.

Sources in the area told PREMIUM TIMES that the incident happened around 8 p.m. on Saturday, 18 October.

"It happened around Kuble village after Luma around the Babana border ...