Peter Jerome
Not less than ten persons including a nursing mother and her four months old baby have been kidnapped by armed bandits in kaduna this morning.
The Bandits who invaded a village in the Kakau community in Chikun local government area of Kaduna state, allegedly struck the area at about 2 am on Tuesday and started shooting sporadically into the air for about 30 minutes.
According to sources, Last night, about 2-3, one could hear the continuous sound of gunfire about 30 minutes around kakau on the Abuja – Kaduna highway.
“In the morning, I made my way towards that area, and I was told bandits came to that area at about the time, gunshots were heard.
“No less than 10 persons were abducted by the bandits.
“They also kidnapped a nursing mother and her four months old baby.
“On realizing that, I was told that the hoodlums came back, dropped the baby with a neighbor, and zoomed off with the mother and the father” the source disclosed.
However, the Kaduna police command spokesman Jalige Muhammed, who promised to get back to our reporter in due course said they received several security reports daily from different areas in the state.