No fewer than 16 persons have been kidnapped in Mararraba Mazuga village of Kachia local government area in Kaduna State.
The attack, according to a resident, took place around 11pm and 12 midnight of Thursday night and Friday morning.
He disclosed that two of the kidnap victims escaped while seven others were later set free to go and provide for ransom for the remaining captives.
According to the resident of the village, who gave his name as Wayas Musa, he said one of the victims released by the kidnappers, Na’omi Kayit, told them that two of her daughters were still in the hands of the abductors.
He added that Naomi said one of her two daughters in captivity is a student of ABU Zaria while the other one studies on scholarship in Togo and that she is in Nigeria for a break.
Meanwhile, the kidnappers were yet to make contact with the victims’ families to demand ransom for the release of the victims as at press time.
Efforts to get the reaction of Kaduna State Police Command on the incident through its Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Munsir Hassan, was not successful as his known phone line was not reachable as at the time of filing this report.
