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Barely 72 hours when 80 Islamiyya children were abducted and rescued in Katsina, bandits have again stormed Kaigar Malamai in Danmusa local government area of the state and abducted the village head, his two housewives and 14 people.
The hoodlums stormed the sleepy village on Monday night kidnapped the village head, Kabir Ajiya.
They were also said to have ransacked the entire village and stole so many cows.
A resident Umar Abdulsalam said the villagers had fled the village to surrounding villages and towns.
He said, “On Monday at about 9 pm bandits riding on motorcycles attacked our village. They took away our village head, Malam Kabir Muhammed Ajiya, and his two wives.
By Francis Sardauna
Bandits on Monday night kidnapped the village Head of Kaigar Malamai, Kabir Muhammed Ajiya, his two wives and 14 other peasant farmers in Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina state.
The bandits were said to have also ransacked the entire village, injuring six other persons and rustled unspecified cows in the village.
A survivor of the attack, Umar Abdulsalam, who spoke to THISDAY in a telephone interview on Tuesday, said the villagers had relocated to Dan-Musa town and other nearby villages in the local government.
THISDAY reports that bandits had earlier kidnapped 80 pupils of Hizburrahim Islamiyya School in Mahuta village of Dandume Local Government Area of the state but were rescued by a team of security operatives.