About 20 bandits on Sunday night wearing long female attires (Abaya) and hijab attacked Kauyen Baidu Sabuwar Unguwar area of Kurfi town where they abducted two persons and shot another.
Those abducted were an 11-year-old girl, Khadija Muttaka, the daughter of Dr Muttaka Mamman, the Dean Student Affairs at Federal University Dutsin Ma, and a housewife and mother of seven, Murja Umar, while Ibrahim Yar Gashe was shot on his leg and is receiving treatment at a hospital.
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Our reporter gathered that the bandits left their motorcycles behind the hilly rocks at the far end of the town and walked through the area on foot at about 9 pm and launched their attack on the unsuspecting residents of the area.
Sympathisers besieged the affected area to condole the families and offer prayers for their freedom.
Dr Mamman said, “The attackers came at about 9 pm with guns. They shot a neighbour of mine who is presently at the hospital.
“My son Umar was walking home with the now abducted girl, holding her hand from their aunty’s house when she was whisked away.”
“My son saw about 10 ‘women’ with hijabs coming towards them and became suspicious. He tried to rush and escape when one of them climbed into the balcony and took her away.”
Speaking on the incident, the spokesman of the state police command, SP Gambo Isa, said the bandits, with AK 47 rifles, attacked the village and abducted the girl and shot one Ibrahim Yar Gashe on the leg.
Already, men of Operation Puff Adder and Saran Daji are making efforts to rescue the girl, he added.
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