Bandits kill police officer, abduct 23 in fresh Kaduna attacks

Bandits have killed a police inspector and abducted 23 people during attacks on Ungwan Maje and Ungwan Laka communities in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

The bandits were said to have invaded the communities in the early hours of Wednesday and shot intermittently making the villagers to scamper for safety.

“The bandits first attacked Ungwan Maje, where they abducted 16 persons, majority of them women and children,” an eyewitness said.

He added, “The bandits later attacked Ungwan Laka, where a mobile police inspector, Joshua Markus, who came to visit his family from Rivers state was killed.

“The bandits abducted seven persons, including the wife and daughter of the deceased policeman.”

A retired military operative, who is a resident of Ungwan Laka, was said to have narrowly escaped with his family. However, his car and motorcycle were burnt by the hoodlums.

The corpse of the police inspector has been deposited at the Saint Gerald Catholic Hospital, Kaduna.

But spokesman for the Kaduna state police command, Mohammad Jalige, said he was not aware of the incident.

He promised to make findings on the incident known later.