More than 50 women have been kidnapped in Zamfara
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More than 50 women have been confirmed kidnapped in an attack on Saturday at the hometown of the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, in Zamfara State.
Residents said the bandits conducted a house-to-house search and abducted mostly women and children in the Kakin-Dawa in the Gidan Goga district of Maradun Local Government Area.
When PREMIUM TIMES contacted him on Tuesday, the police spokesperson in the state, Yazeed Abubakar, said he was yet to be briefed by the divisional police officer in the town due to poor telecommunication network.
But a resident of Kakin-Dawa, Hassan Ya’u, whose younger sister was among the abducted persons, said the gunmen invaded the community on motorcycles at about 1:30 a.m. and picked residents from house to house.
Mr Ya’u said after the night raid, residents found that more than 50 women, including married women and girls, were abducted.
