Bandits rode on motorbikes to the community, took strategic positions and started shooting sporadically for almost two hours.
Rampaging bandits attacked Ungwan Gimbiya, a community in Kaduna, seizing 50 people while leaving two dead.
Eyewitnesses say the bandits rode on motorbikes to the community, took strategic positions and started shooting sporadically for almost two hours.
A resident of Kaduna told TheNiche that his colleague who resides in the area, stepped out of his apartment along with some neighbours to enquire what was happening. They thought the gunshot was from the Joint Task Force repelling bandits only to return to his home to find that two of his children have been taken away by the bandits who forced their way through.
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DAILY POST reported that a total of 13 families were visited by the bandits, resulting in the abduction of a large number of people.
According to a source of the news website, the attack lasted for about two hours with heavy gunshots in order to scare the people away.
The source explained that the kidnapping of the affected persons is the worst ever in the area since the inception of banditry in Kaduna.
The Kaduna State chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. John Joseph Hayab, also confirmed the abduction to the news website, saying that a pastor who resides in the affected community called him and narrated the incident to him.
According to Rev. Hayab, the security situation is getting out of hand as nobody is safe irrespective of where one finds himself, saying that people should be prayerful and be careful in all that they do.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, when contacted on the incident promised to call back after making clarification but did not at the time of filing this report.