Gunmen Kidnap 80, Including Children, In Northwest Nigeria
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Gunmen abducted at least 80 people, mostly women and children,
in Nigeria's Zamfara state, a hotspot for kidnappings for ransom by
armed gangs targeting remote villages, residents said on Saturday,
trend reports citing
reuters .
Gangs of armed men have attacked hundreds of local communities
across northwestern Nigeria in recent years, while Islamist
militants continue to stage attacks in the northeast.
The latest kidnapping took place on Friday in Wanzamai village
in Tsafe local government area in Zamfara, three residents said.
Zamfara is one of the states most affected by kidnappings.
Musa Usman, whose 14-year-old son Ibrahim was among those
abducted, said children and women from the village were clearing
land for farming and collecting firewood when they were taken by
gunmen and marched into a nearby forest.
"The children from different households went to collect firewood
and few of them were going to farms in search of manual jobs when
they were abducted," Usman told Reuters by phone.
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