Bandits have abducted a five days old baby, the mother and eight others at Azzara village in Kachia LGA of Kaduna State.
City & Crime had reported that bandits on Monday, March 5, invaded Azzara and abducted 11 people including a woman, but the victims were reportedly rescued by troops at Rijana forest that boarders Kachia and Kagarko LGA of the state.
A resident of Azzara, Usman Ibrahim, who confirmed the latest kidnap incident through telephone to our reporter on Monday, said the incident happened on Sunday around 11:23 pm when some bandits, wielding sophisticated weapons on motorcycles, attacked the village.
He said upon arriving the village, the bandits attacked the house of one Alhaji Ado Altine, and whisked away his wife, Mrs Laraba Altine and her 5-day-old baby.
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He said the bandits proceeded to a neighbor’s house and abducted seven others at gunpoint, before leading them into the forest.
According to him, the bandits could not meet their main target, which he said was Alhaji Ado Altine, and decided to whisked away the woman and her baby.
He said, “Actually, from information I gathered, the woman’s husband, Alhaji Ado Altine, was their main target but he was not at home when the bandits struck and they decided to abduct his wife and the five days old baby alongside eight others.”
He said Alhaji Ado returned from Jere market, where he had gone to sell some of his cows, adding, however, that upon his returned from the market on Sunday, he left Azzara to visit a relation at Katari town when the bandits struck.
“Actually, the bandits missed their target as this is the second time they are coming after Alhaji Ado Altine. The same thing happened early January, when they came and they didn’t meet him at home,” he said.
He said contact was yet to be established with the abductors of the victims since the incident happened on Sunday night.
The spokesman of the Kaduna state police command, SP Hassan Mansur, did not pick calls or reply to text message sent to him on the incident up till the time of filling this report yesterday.
