Bandits abduct 3 farmers, rustle 60 cows in Kaduna

Bandits have abducted three farmers in Taka-Lafiya community in Kagarko LGA of Kaduna State.

City & Crime also learnt that 60 cows were rustled by the bandits in Gidan-Makeri, a neighbouring village.

A resident of Kagarko, Adamu Jamilu, who confirmed the two incidents to our reporter through telephone on Sunday, said the three farmers were working on their farms when the bandits picked them up.

He explained that family members of the victims raised alarm around 6pm when they did not return from the farm.

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He further said that the families and others immediately mobilised to the farm where they found their hoes and the motorcycle they went with.

Jamilu said a contact was yet to be established with the abductors since Saturday.

There was no response from the Kaduna State Police Command on the incidents.