Three hunters have been shot dead and a couple and 14 others abducted in Abashiya village in Kachia LGA of Kaduna State.
Following the incident, many residents of neighbouring Badoko, Gashi, Azzara, Gidan Busa and Western Katari villages fled from their homes.
A resident of neighbouring Azzara village, Shehu Usman, who confirmed the incident through telephone to our reporter on Sunday, gave the names of the hunters as Yakubu Alhassan, Sani Galadima and Iliyasu Musa.
He said the incident happened on Saturday around 4am when the bandits were escaping with 16 victims, including a couple, they abducted from Jere town.
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A chief in Jere Emirate, who preferred anonymity, confirmed the abduction of the couple and 14 residents to City & Crime.
He said, “In fact, we couldn’t sleep that day because of the sporadic gunshots when the bandits invaded the house of Alhaji Kabir and abducted a couple and 14 other people from the compound.”
He further said that six of the victims were able to escape when some soldiers who were alerted by the gunshots mobilised to the scene.
The Secretary of the Jere Emirate Council, Aliyu Zubairu, also confirmed the incident.
The spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command, SP Hassan Mansur, did not respond to calls and a text message sent to him on the incident.
