More than 100 people, including women and children, were abducted when gunmen raided four villages in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state
on Sunday, the information commissioner and residents said on Monday. Kidnapping has become endemic in northwest Nigeria as roving gangs of armed men abduct people from villages, highways and farms, and demand ransom money from their relatives. More than 40 people were abducted from Kanwa village in Zurmi local government area of Zamfara, Zamfara information commissioner Ibrahim Dosara and one local resident said.
They kidnapped children aged between 14 to 16 years and women,” the Kanwa village resident said. In Yankaba and Gidan Goga communities of Maradun Local government area, at least 38 people were kidnapped while working on their farms, residents said. Information commissioner Dosara accused the gunmen of using abductees as human shields against air raids from the military.
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