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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Bandits stormed Kofar Gayan low-cost estate, Zaria, Kaduna, on Wednesday night and kidnapped a Customs officer, Muawiyya Gambo Turaki, and nine others.<\/p>\n

Speaking to DAILY POST in Kaduna on Thursday, a resident in the community, Alhaji Shehu Usman, said all of a sudden, he heard sporadic shooting, and had to lie down in the mosque where he went to pray.<\/p>\n

According to him, the bandits who came around 9.00pm, were shooting indiscriminately to scare people away.<\/p>\n

This is the second time bandits would invade Kofar Gayan and abduct people.<\/p>\n

He said the bandits had invaded the neighborhood last year, abducted the wife of a Customs officer and a woman but released them after N15 million ransom was paid.<\/p>\n

The ward head of the area, Muhammadu Nazifi, who confirmed the incident to DAILY POST on Thursday, said the bandits kidnapped Turaki and his son, Jamalu Muawiyya<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThey also kidnapped a woman, Jamila Usman and another boy also called Khalifah.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, about four of them later escaped and returned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also speaking, one of the escapees, Yushau Isah, said about four of them escaped miraculously after trekking with the bandits for about five kilometers into the bush.<\/p>\n

He narrated, \u201cThe abductors were eight in number and came on foot with sophisticated weapons. They struggled to speak Hausa language to us but their language of communication is Fulani.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isah said they managed to escape under the cover of the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe attributed the abduction to the handiwork of informants because it seems their main target was the customs officer who arrived home from his duty post, just a day earlier,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bandits have been on the increase in Kaduna State since two weeks as no day passes without reports of bandits attack.<\/p>\n

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