Monday, August 19, 2024 -Suspected kidnappers raided a hotel and abducted seven people, including the owner in Gauraka community, located off Abuja Kaduna expressway, in Tafa Local Government Area of Niger State.
A resident of the community, who simply gave
his name as Musa, said the attacker raided the hotel around 1 am on Saturday,
August 17, 2024, and abducted all the lodgers in the facility.
The commander of the security vigilante in
the area, Sabo Abdullahi, listed the seven victims as proprietor of the hotel,
his younger brother and his wife, the hotel manager, as well as three other
guests.
He said the bandits who forced the gate of
the facility opened on arrival, fired gunshots when they were leaving with
their victims, which drew the people’s attention to the incident
“There was only one member of the security
hunters close to the area and he fled the area on sighting them. On our own
side, we were camping around the central part of the town, and it was already
late by the time we received the information,” he said.
According to the Daily Trust, City, Gauraka
community has witnessed not less than five kidnapping incidents within the last
four months, with one just about three weeks ago.
Some residents while lamenting over the
continued attacks on the town by the bandit, said the gunmen often take their
victims to the forest nearby Apo community close to the area, as well as other
areas along the Ijah-Koro, and Ijah-Gwari Road, which leads to Bwari town in
the FCT..
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