Gunmen abducted 87 people at Kajuru station in Kaduna state on Sunday night, local government chairman Ibrahim Gajere said.
“They went and took people out of their houses at gunpoint,” he said.
Harisus Daris, a resident, said that a group of assailants, locally known as bandits, attacked around 10 p.m. local time (23:00 Lithuanian time) invaded the village and began to rob the inhabitants.
A United Nations source and a former local official, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, confirmed the information.
On Saturday, 16 people were kidnapped in Dogon Nome, regarding 10 km away, said Dari, a UN source and former local official.
Last week, armed assailants kidnapped dozens of people from another village in Kajuru district.
Criminal gangs in northwest Nigeria often carry out mass kidnappings, targeting schools, villages and highways, where they can kidnap large numbers of people in quick succession for ransom.
Earlier this month, gunmen abducted more than 250 students from a school in the village of Kuriga, regarding 150 km from Kajuru district, in one of the biggest such attacks in years.
The spate of large-scale kidnappings is a challenge to President Bola Tinubu’s government, which has vowed to tackle insecurity.
SBM Intelligence, a Nigerian risk consultancy, said it had counted 4,777 people abducted since Tinubu took office last May.
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2024-04-06 20:17:50
