Insecurity: Kidnappers nabbed in Kaduna

Unknown gunmen stormed Tudun Mun Tsira village in Sabon Gari Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Friday around 4.00am, they started shooting sporadically to scare people and kidnapped a nursing mother and her child

Following a rapid intervention by security operatives, who received a distress call, rescued the kidnapped nursing mother and her child after serious battle between them and the kidnappers.

One of the kidnappers said, they went to the house of one Mallam Idris, took his wife who was nursing a baby, and went to another apartment within the community and took one elderly man, Mallam Abubakar Garba Aliyu, and his son who relocated to the area recently.

Also, a resident in the area, Alhaji Shehu Madaki, said the gunmen came in their large numbers on motorcycles, with sophisticated weapons and invaded the area through the back fence of the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.

“They picked a nursing mother and her baby at Tudun Mun Tsira village before proceeding to Hayin Liman where they abducted an elderly man, one Alhaji Abubakar along with his grown-up son,” he said.

He also explained that security operatives, who responded to a distress call from the community, have rescued the baby and her mother.

The Bandit conflict in northwest Nigeria is an ongoing conflict between the country’s government and various gangs and ethnic militias.