No fewer than 20 women have been abducted by unknown gunmen while attending a naming ceremony at Gidan Bido village in Dandume Local Government Area of Katsina State.
The incident was said to have occurred on Friday.
It was learnt that the gunmen also attacked and kidnapped five men at Unguwar Bawa village of Dandume Local Government Area on Saturday.
The member representing Dandume LGA in the Katsina State House of Assembly is from Unguwar Bawa.
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Katsina is one of the states most affected by terrorism and banditry in Nigeria’s North-West region.
According to SaharaReporters, some bandits, on December 11, 2020, kidnapped 344 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara. They were released about a week later.
However, on December 19, 84 Islamiyya students of Hizburrahim Islamiyya in Mahuta village, Dandume Local Government Area of the state, were kidnapped but rescued shortly after.
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