The incident took place at about 12pm, a community leader in the area, Sallau Ibrahim, told The PUNCH.
“They kidnapped some of the traders/travellers on their way to the market,”Ibrahim said.
“For about two weeks the farmers didn’t go to farm in the area. Today they decided to go, they were attacked and kidnapped,” Sallau said. The Chairman of Birnin Gwari Emirate Progressive Union, Usman Kasai, while also confirming the incident, said, “They killed three people. Many were abducted. We are trying to know how many are in the forest with the bandits.”As of the time of filing this report, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mohammad Jalige, had yet to respond to our correspondent’s enquiry on the incident.
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