Emerging report indicates that bandits have on Monday morning, attacked Gauraka town, in Tafa Local Government Area of Niger State, kidnapping not less than 12 residents.
The heavily armed bandits shot sporadically, as they went from house to house kidnapping their victims, and taking them to an unknown destination.
An eyewitness revealed that the incident happened at about 7:30am
Following the development, hundreds of youths and other villagers have poured out on the road, blocking the ever busy Abuja – Suleja – Kaduna Road, thereby preventing free flow of traffic on both sides of the road.
Efforts to speak with the Police in the State on the attack were unsuccessful.
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