Gunmen abduct woman, girl in fresh Kwara community attack

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Suspected terrorists have launched another deadly attack in Kwara State, abducting a woman and a teenage girl during a midnight raid on Maganiko Ndanangi, a community under the Lafiagi Emirate in Edu Local Government Area.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the heavily armed gunmen stormed the community around midnight on Sunday, shooting sporadically into the air to scare residents before whisking away their victims.

A resident, who spoke under anonymity, said the hoodlums operated freely without resistance.

“They came around 12 midnight, shooting everywhere. People ran into the bush. The two kidnapped people were a married woman called Aisha, popularly known as Gogo, and a 16-year-old girl named Amina. They took them away to an unknown location,” the resident narrated.

The latest incident comes barely days after suspected bandits killed a local vigilante commander, simply identified as Tetengi, during an attack on Kakafu village in the Lade district of Patigi Local Government Area.

The gunmen, reportedly numbering over a dozen, stormed the agrarian community around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, September 17, riding motorcycles and armed with sophisticated weapons.

They engaged local security operatives in a fierce gun duel, during which Tetengi was gunned down. Punch