Bandits Abduct Zamfara MD, Family Member

• …there was a serious gun battle between the bandits and the local vigilante groups. 

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Zamfara State Managing Director of the State Mass Transit, Alhaji Aminu Papa and members of his family were on Saturday night kidnapped by bandits at his residence at the Mareri area of Gusau, the State capital.

It was gathered that there was a serious gun battle between the bandits and the local vigilante groups.

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This forced the bandits to release a member of the family but whisked away the Managing Director.

“Yet, the vigilante groups still pursued the bandits; as a result of tension, they shot the MD on the foot and released him,” a source said.

Zamfara has come under incessant attacks by bandits over the last few weeks.

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