2024 Turns SORROWFUL! Tinubu, FG Receive Fresh HEARTBREAKING News As Bandits Go Brutal Along Abuja- Kaduna Highway
In another heartbreaking incident, some suspected Bandits have reportedly turned the Abuja- Kaduna highway into a dangerous road for commuters having kidnapped scores of people along the expressway in recent days.
It was gathered that no fewer than 85 persons, comprising both travellers and residents, were abducted by terrorists at Katari along the Kaduna– Abuja highways near Katari, in the Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
According to the report, the attacks on the commuters between Thursday and Sunday, January 7, 2024, led to the abduction of 85 persons while many others sustained gunshot injuries.
Speaking on the incident, the Kaduna State Police Command Spokesperson, Mansir Hassan, said the security operatives engaged the bandits in gun battle and forced them to flee from the scene of the incident, claiming that many of them managed to escape with various degrees of injuries.
” There was a heavy gun duel along the Kaduna- Abuja Expressway between security operatives and bandits on the 6th January 2024 at 2330 hours or thereabouts, ” he said in a statement titled, ” Security operatives engaged bandits in a fierce battle along the Kaduna- Abuja Expressway. ”
He added that ” in the course of the battle, commuters plying the highway were caught in a crossfire, of six persons sustained varying degrees of bullet injury. “