Gunmen Kill Police Inspector, Vigilante Boss, Kidnap 3 in Kaduna

The Kaduna Sate Police Command, on Tuesday, confirmed that gunmen have killed a police inspector, the commander of Kaduna state vigilante group and abducted two girls at Unguwar Katsinawa, Shika, in Giwa Local Government Area of the state.

The Kaduna State police spokesman, ASP Mukhtar Hussaini Aliyu, said that the police had received a distress call informing them about the hoodlums. And many police personnel were immediately sent to the scene.

According to Aliyu, it was during exchange of fire that the police inspector and the vigilante leader were killed. He added that  a police corporal and other residents were also seriously injured, Daily Trust reports.

Giving accounts of the killing and kidnap of his son’s daughters, the father to the dead vigilante commander, Malam Muhammad Gali, said that about 50 gunmen stormed the residence of his son, Malam Mustapha Muhammad Gali, shooting randomly, and kidnapping three of his daughters.
“it was around 1 AM that my son called me, telling me that gunmen have surrounded his house. I woke up his siblings. While we approached the house, the gunmen began firing at us from all angles,” he added.

Also, Gali disclosed that his son was shot and taken to ABUTH, where he finally died.
The whereabouts of the abducted girls is as yet unknown.

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