Bandits in the early hours of Sunday shot a vigilante, abducted his wife, two children and two other children from another couple living in the same compound in Kwasare community off the Abuja-Kaduna highway in Kagarko LGA of Kaduna State.
A community leader, John Alpha Dogo, told City & Crime that the bandits who arrived around 12am went straight to the house of the vigilante.
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He explained that, “On arrival, they shot the vigilante twice on his leg but he managed to escape and was rushed to the Sabon-Wuse General Hospital in Tafa LGA of Niger state.
The state’s police spokesman, ASP Mansur Hassan, did not reply to calls and an SMS from our reporter on the incident.