Gunmen in the early hours of Friday stormed Birshin Fulani, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis, and kidnapped a nursing mother of three children, Mrs Rukayyat Odedoyin.
The kidnappers who were about 10 stormed the area at about 12 am and forced themselves into the building, broke the main door before gaining entrance into the house, and went away with the woman whose husband had just been transferred to Kaduna, the neighbours told Tribune Online.
One of the neighbors who did not disclose her name said that “at about 12 midnight, we started hearing sporadic gunshots from different directions around our house. We woke up and thought of having cover.”
She added that “we then heard people jumping the fence trying to gain entrance into the house of our neighbor. They were there from 12 midnight to 1.30 am. By the time we came out, they had left with the woman leaving behind her 3 children as you can see”.
Another neighbor, Usman Baba said that “We just heard the movement of people of motorbikes and thereafter gunshots from different directions then later towards the house of the woman who was kidnapped”.
A colleague of the husband, Ade Aremu said that “I was called by my colleague who is in Kaduna that his family was in danger, that I should go and see what the situation was. When I got there, I discovered that the wife had been kidnapped leaving behind the 3 kids”.
The State Police Command was yet to confirm the kidnapping as the PPRO did not pick up the phone when his line was called as at the time of filing this report.
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