Hours After IGP’s Visit, Bandits Abduct Villagers On Abuja-Kaduna Highway
Some hours after Inspector General of Police (IGP) visited Abuja Kaduna Highway, Bandits raided some houses at Anguwar Maji in Jere and abducted 22 villagers along the road, The Informant247 reports.
Anguwar Maji, Shehu Bala, a resident, who confirmed the latest abduction through a telephone conversation with our reporter, explained that the attack happened around 11pm on last night.
He said the bandits came in large numbers and invaded some houses and whisked away 22 residents, including five women.
“They moved from house to house and woke their victims up before they marched them into the bush at gunpoint,” he said.
According to him, the bandits operated in the community for over an hour without interruption.
He added that they only started shooting sporadically to scare people from coming after them after leaving the community.
Bala, however, said one among the 22 kidnapped victims escaped from his abductors while being led into the bush.
The spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command, ASP Mohammed Jalinge, could not be reached at the time of filing this report.
