No fewer than 55 persons have reportedly been kidnapped by a gang of bandits while escorting a bride along Damari town in Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State.
Although security agencies are yet to confirm the incident officially, reports however, said that the incident occurred on Thursday at about 8:00 pm.
Unconfirmed reports further claim that three security volunteers lost their lives in battle to rescue the victims.
“Before the hoodlums attacked the victims on a canter vehicle, the victims were initially over 70 mostly friends to the bride in which several others escaped,” a source was quoted to have said.
Sabuwa, apart from being an agrarian area, also remains one of the security front line LGAs grappling with the activities of bandits and their collaborators mostly informants to bandits.
