No fewer than 55 persons are said to have been kidnapped by a terrorists gang while escorting a bride along Damari town in Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State.
Security officials have yet to officially confirm the incident, but a resident said in a phone call with reporters on Friday that the incident happened around 8:00 p.m. on Thursday.
He noted that three security volunteers however lost their lives in effort to rescue the victims.
“Before the hoodlums attack the victims on a canter vehicle, the victims were initially over 70 mostly friends to the bride in which several others escaped”, he added.
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.