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A number of Passengers Kidnapped as Gunmen Assault Motorists on Zamfara Freeway
Gusau, Zamfara State – In a harrowing incident on Saturday night, a number of passengers have been kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be bandits who launched an assault on motorists touring alongside a freeway in Zamfara State.
Eyewitnesses reported that the armed assailants blocked the Damri to Bakura street, forcibly hijacking autos and abducting all occupants. A social media consumer, DanKatsina50, shared the distressing information, stating, “A couple of hours in the past, bandits blocked the Damri to Bakura street in Zamfara State, abducting all passengers from two totally loaded autos. It’s alarming that terrorists can put a blockade on a street in broad daylight with none worry. The northwest area of Nigeria has develop into an online of terror.”
Zamfara State has been one of many epicenters of banditry in Northern Nigeria, with felony gangs ceaselessly raiding villages, looting, killing, and burning properties. These gangs function from camps situated in an unlimited forest that stretches throughout Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, and Niger states. Through the years, they’ve additionally carried out mass kidnappings, together with concentrating on college students in faculties.
In 2019, in an effort to curb the violence, the Zamfara State authorities, beneath the management of then-Governor and present Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, entered right into a peace settlement with the bandits. Nonetheless, regardless of the accord, the state continues to undergo from frequent assaults, with residents being kidnapped or killed.
This newest abduction highlights the continuing insecurity within the area and the rising boldness of the felony parts working there.
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