Bandits abduct 13 residents in Kebbi border community 

Bandits person abducted 13 residents of Tangaram Village successful Wasagu District of Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State pursuing a midnight onslaught connected the community.

Residents said the attackers stormed the colony astatine astir 1:00 a.m. connected Sunday, firing sporadically earlier breaking into homes and whisking victims distant toward the Zamfara border.

The Kebbi State Police Command confirmed the incidental connected Monday, saying the abducted residents were inactive successful captivity portion rescue operations continued crossed the area.

Police spokesperson, SP Bashir Usman, said preliminary investigations showed that each the victims were big antheral residents of the village.

“The abducted persons are inactive successful captivity pursuing the onslaught connected Tangaram Village, Danko/Wasagu LGA,” helium said.

Usman added that constabulary tactical teams, successful collaboration with vigilante groups and different information agencies, had intensified coordinated rescue operations on borderline communities linking Kebbi and Zamfara states.

He said the operations were aimed astatine securing the harmless merchandise of the victims and apprehending those liable for the attack.

An eyewitness, who spoke connected information of anonymity, described the incidental arsenic terrifying, saying the attackers arrived connected motorcycles and changeable into the aerial earlier forcing their mode into houses.