Gunmen raid Kaduna communities, ‘kill seven, abduct 57’

At least seven people have been reportedly killed and 57 abducted following separate attacks by bandits in Birnin-Gwari LGA of Kaduna state.

The assailants reportedly attacked a vehicle at Kuriga, along the Birnin Gwari-Kaduna highway on Saturday.

A student of Government Science Secondary School Birnin-Gwari was said to have escaped with a gunshot wound.

Ibrahim Nagwari, chairman of the Birnin Gwari Vanguard for Security and Good Governance, in a statement on Saturday, said the bandits also attacked locals at Unguwar Bula, Unguwar Dafillo and Ijinga in Randagi areas of the LGA.

“Today, around 10:00am, a final year student of Science Secondary School Birnin-Gwari escaped with bullet wounds on his shoulder on his way to register for JAMB/UMTE in Kaduna,” the statement reads.

“The dreadful armed bandits spray bullets on the vehicle conveying the student and others at Manini village after Kuriga along Birnin-Gwari Kaduna Highway.

“The student is awaiting surgery for the removal of the bullet on his shoulder at Jibrin Maigwari General Hospital in Birnin-Gwari.

“Similarly, armed bandits killed seven people at Unguwar Bula, Unguwar Dafillo and Ijinga in Randagi district, Birnin-Gwari on Saturday.

“The bandits on motor circles numbering fifty attacked the communities around 11 o’clock in the morning on Friday and lasted for four hours, preventing people to conduct Juma’at prayers.

“The bandits, apart from killing six people on the spot, another person died this morning at Jibrin Maigwari General Hospital, while 57 people abducted with many of them being women from the same community.”