Bandits kidnap many traders in Kaduna

Some traders traveling to Kano from Kaduna were abducted by bandits along the dreaded Birnin Gwari-Kaduna road on Wednesday.

The traders’ convoy was reportedly attacked by the bandits in the morning, who later took them away into the forests.

A local, Malam Umaru said the traders were travelling in a convoy of over 20 vehicles with police escort.

According to him,the bandits struck at a bend near Udawa after Buruku and abducted not fewer than 70 traders from Umaru’s community and scores of others from neighboring villages .

He said in Hausa language that calls on the phone of some of the missing traders, were answered by the bandits, a development that confirmed the about a hundred traders were in captivity, Vanguard reported.

Reaction from the police in Kaduna on the incident, is still being awaited.