Residents stated males carrying assault rifles went door to door, kidnapping individuals within the northwestern city of Kakin Dawa.
Armed males have kidnapped dozens of girls and youngsters in northwestern Nigeria, the newest in a spate of kidnappings which have plagued the area.
Police stated the incident passed off on Sunday within the village of Kafin Dawa in Zamfara State. Residents reported males carrying assault rifles going door to door, kidnapping individuals.
“We discovered that they kidnapped greater than 50 girls, together with married girls and women,” stated Hassan Ya’u, a resident who managed to flee however had his youthful sister kidnapped.
“The whole village was gripped by concern as gunshots echoed all through the operation,” stated one other resident cited by Nigeria’s Day by day Belief information website, which reported 43 individuals had been kidnapped.
Zamfara police stated they’ve deployed extra safety forces to the world.
Kidnapping for ransom by armed males, identified domestically as bandits, is rife in northwest Nigeria resulting from excessive ranges of poverty, unemployment and the proliferation of unlawful firearms.
In March this yr, gunmen kidnapped greater than 130 college students within the northwestern city of Kuriga for ransom.
The students were freed “unhurt” a number of weeks later after intensive “backchannel” negotiations, the federal government stated on the time.
Abductions from Nigerian colleges had been first carried out by the armed group Boko Haram, which seized 276 college students from a women’ college in Chibok in northeastern Borno State in 2014. A few of the women had been by no means launched, with most of them forcefully married to the fighters.
In one other mass kidnapping in July 2021, armed males took greater than 150 college students in a raid. The scholars had been reunited months later with their households after they reportedly paid ransoms.
At the very least 1,400 kids have been kidnapped since 2014.