Author: Phlippages
Bandits in the early hours of Sunday stormed Lema Community, Mando village opposite Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) and kidnapped a pregnant woman who came to see her sick mum and 7 others other residents of the community.
Also bandits in large numbers attacked Ganun-Gari and Dawakin Bassa in Birnin Gwari LGA of Kaduna state on Sunday killing two people, injuring three others, and abducting many people from the communities.
The bandits arrived Mando village around 1:00am on Sunday and started shooting sporadically into the air before searching the three houses from which the pregnant woman and seven other people were gathered and taken away into the forest.
Musa Danladi, one of the residents said the residents were all afraid to leave their houses because of gunshots. “They came around 1:am and took away eight residents including a pregnant woman that came to visit her sick mother in the community. This is not the first time bandits would attack our community.”
Also, on Sunday afternoon, bandits in large numbers stormed Birnin Gwari villages of Ganun-Gari and Dawakin Bassa in Birnin Gwari Emirate killing two people, injuring three others, while abducting many people from the villages.
The bandits, came in from Zamfara Forest through Tudun Wada – Sabon Layi in western part of Birnin Gwari, embarked on a looting spree at Ganun-Gari near Dawakin Bassa after they ransacked neighbouring village of Ungwar Baki.
They had rustled cattle and took away foodstuffs at Ungwar Baki, where some people were either killed or injured but the casualty figure is yet unknown at this time.
