প্রকাশ: 05/12/2022
Gunmen abducted 19
Muslim worshippers after attacking a mosque in the restive northwest of
Nigeria, police said Sunday.
The attackers stormed the mosque in Maigamji village, in
Katsina state, during evening prayers Saturday and carried out the kidnappings
after shooting and wounding the imam and another worshipper, said local police
spokesman Gambo Isah.
"Our men mobilised and went after the bandits and
succeeded in rescuing six of the worshippers from their abductors, while
efforts are underway to free the remaining 13," he added.
The two people wounded were being treated in hospital, he
added.
Northwest and central Nigeria have been terrorised by
criminal gangs locally known as bandits, who village raids steal cattle, kidnap
for ransom and burn homes after looting supplies.
Hostages are usually released after a ransom is paid to the
gangs, which take refuge in the vast Rugu Forest. It straddles four states in
northwest Nigeria, including Katsina.
Last month, 15 people were killed and several others wounded
in a series of bandit attacks on villages in neighbouring Kaduna state, say the
authorities.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been under intense
pressure to end the violence before he leaves office next year at the end of
his eight-year tenure in office.
There is growing concern over an alliance in the northeast
between the bandits and jihadists waging a 12-year insurgency to establish a
Caliphate.
– BSS/AFP
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