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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Barely 24 hours after suspected bandits abducted scores of travellers along the Kaduna-Zaria Road, another attack took place on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

An eyewitness, who identified himself as Rabiu Musa, told DAILYPOST in Kaduna that bandits have again abducted five people in Dallatu and Kasuwar Da\u2019a areas of Dutsen Abba in Zaria Local Government Area.<\/p>\n

Suspected bandits had, on Monday, blocked Kaduna-Zaria Road, killed three travellers and kidnapped several others who were later loaded in a waiting bus that conveyed them to their den.<\/p>\n

However, they struck again on Wednesday, leading to the abduction of five others.<\/p>\n

The Kaduna State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Jalige, did not respond to calls and text messages sent to his phone for confirmation<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Barely 24 hours after suspected bandits abducted scores of travellers along the Kaduna-Zaria Road, another attack took place on Wednesday. An eyewitness, who identified himself as Rabiu Musa, told DAILYPOST in Kaduna that bandits have again abducted five people in Dallatu and Kasuwar Da\u2019a areas of Dutsen Abba in Zaria Local Government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":55385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,138,254,150],"class_list":["post-55386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-kidnap","tag-nigeria","tag-zamfara"],"yoast_head":"\nBandits kidnap five persons in fresh Zaria attack - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Barely 24 hours after suspected bandits abducted scores of travellers along the Kaduna-Zaria Road, another attack took p ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-kidnap-five-persons-in-fresh-zaria-attack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bandits kidnap five persons in fresh Zaria attack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Barely 24 hours after suspected bandits abducted scores of travellers along the Kaduna-Zaria Road, another attack took p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-kidnap-five-persons-in-fresh-zaria-attack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-15T16:30:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61ba084128a3c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"718\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-kidnap-five-persons-in-fresh-zaria-attack#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-kidnap-five-persons-in-fresh-zaria-attack\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bandits kidnap five persons in fresh Zaria attack\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-15T16:30:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-kidnap-five-persons-in-fresh-zaria-attack\"},\"wordCount\":139,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-kidnap-five-persons-in-fresh-zaria-attack#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/img-61ba084128a3c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Kidnap\",\"Nigeria\",\"Zamfara\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-kidnap-five-persons-in-fresh-zaria-attack#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-kidnap-five-persons-in-fresh-zaria-attack\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-kidnap-five-persons-in-fresh-zaria-attack\",\"name\":\"Bandits kidnap five persons in fresh Zaria attack - 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