Gunmen kidnap Nigerian worshippers going to petitions at mosque

  • Shooters hijacked many admirers at mosque in Nigeria.
  • Groups are overflowing across Nigeria’s northwest where they capture for recover.
  • Nigeria’s tactical last month began sending off air strikes against posses.

Gunmen hijacked many admirers going to Friday evening supplications at a mosque in Nigeria’s northwestern province of Zamfara, police and witnesses said.

Equipped groups are overflowing across Nigeria’s northwest where they loot or seize for payment, and viciousness has been expanding, where meagerly extended security powers frequently neglect to stop the assaults.

Mohammed Shehu, Zamfara police representative said an obscure number of admirers had been snatched from Jumu’at focal mosque in Zugu town, Bukkuyum nearby government region.

The Zamfara state police command in collaboration with military and vigilantes have dispatched personnel for the search and rescue operation,” he said.

Ibrahim Aminu, who was at the mosque let Reuters know that the shooters concealed firearms under their articles of clothing and professed to be admirers.

On entering the mosque compound, they took out their weapons and shot in the air, constraining individuals to get as far away as possible, he said. The shooters took many admirers and power walked them to an obscure spot.

Mohammed Bukar Zugu said his 22-year-old sibling was among those abducted. The shooters later utilized his telephone to consider him and asked that he set up a payoff. They didn’t say the amount they needed, he said.

Nigeria’s tactical last month began sending off air strikes against the furnished packs, referred to locally as criminals and says it has up to this point killed many them.

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