Gunmen Kidnap Two Women In Zaria, Police Arrest Five Hoodlums

Bandits on Sunday night in Kaduna state invaded Kofar Kuyambana Low Cost Housing Estate in Zaria and kidnapped two housewives.

But the police, vigilantes and other security operatives responded swiftly to distress calls, stormed the area, battled  the bandits and arrested five of them.

A source told one of our correspondents on Monday that the incident took place at 9:30pm, noting that some Islamic pupils were hit by bullets and taken to an undisclosed hospital in Zaria for treatment.

The bandits were said to have invaded the estate in large numbers on motorcycles, shooting indiscriminately and targeting the home of a Customs officer.

“They succeeded in taking away the Customs officer’s wife, leaving the children who were shouting, behind,” said the source, adding, “the bandits attacked another house where an elderly woman was taken away too.

“The police were able to arrest two of them (bandits) on Sunday while the other three (bandits) were arrested this morning (Monday),” he added.

Although there was no official statement either from the state or the police, the state police public Relations Officer, Mohammed Jalige confirmed the incident.

The attack was the fifth in the state within a week. Recall that bandits on March 11 attacked the Greenfield University, along Kaduna-Abuja road killing a staff member and kidnapping 23 students.

Three of the students were killed on Friday and their corpses dumped close to the school.

On Tuesday last week, 65 people were kidnapped at the Adara community  in the  Kajuru Local Government Area of the state, when gunmen attacked the area.

In the early hours of Thursday, gunmen attacked Idon General Hospital also in  the  Kajuru Local Government Area and abducted two nurses.

On Sunday, bandits  attacked Haske Baptist Church in Mannai Tasha village in Kuriga ward of  the Chikun Local Government Area of the state.