KADUNA — 57 people have been abducted, 7 killed following multiple bandit attacks in Birnin-Gwari LGA of Kaduna state.
Ibrahim Nagwari, chairman of the Birnin Gwari Vanguard for Security and Good Governance, confirmed this in a statement on Saturday.
According to the statement, bandits attacked a vehicle at Kuriga, along the Birnin Gwari-Kaduna highway.
Only a secondary school student escaped but with a gunshot wound.
The bandits also attacked locals at Unguwar Bula, Unguwar Dafillo and Ijinga in Randagi areas of the LGA.
“Today, around 10:00am, a final year student of Science Secondary School Birnin-Gwari escaped with bullet wounds on his shoulder on his way to register for JAMB/UMTE in Kaduna.
“The dreadful armed bandits spray bullets on the vehicle conveying the student and others at Manini village after Kuriga along Birnin-Gwari Kaduna Highway.
“The student is awaiting surgery for the removal of the bullet on his shoulder at Jibrin Maigwari General Hospital in Birnin-Gwari.
“Similarly, armed bandits killed seven people at Unguwar Bula, Unguwar Dafillo and Ijinga in Randagi district, Birnin-Gwari on Saturday.
“The bandits on motor circles numbering fifty attacked the communities around 11 o’clock in the morning on Friday and lasted for four hours, preventing people to conduct Juma’at prayers,” the statement read.
“The bandits, apart from killing six people on the spot, another person died this morning at Jibrin Maigwari General Hospital, while 57 people abducted with many of them being women from the same community.”
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