Terrorists in military uniforms have reportedly abducted at least 30 ppersons in Tashar Nagulle village, Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State.
The terrorists were said to have stormed the community in their numbers, armed with automatic weapons.
A source said on arrival, the terrorists fired several shots into the air to announce their presence, then began pursuing people who ran out of their homes in search of where to hide.
“The terrorists left their motorcycles some few meters from the village and trekked to the village; they also went from house to house dragging several people out,” one of the sources said.
“When residents began to flee, the terrorists went after them shouting stop running, that they were military personnel who had come to help them with the security situation in the area.
“Those who were deceived and others that were dragged out of their homes, were rounded up and moved to where they had parked their motorcycles.”
He added that those captured included girls and married women.
He said that “one of the abducted persons who managed to escape and run back to the village, overheard the terrorists count 31 persons; all those abducted were taken into the forest on the motorcycles.”
The incident is coming after Thursday’s incident at Saki Jiki village in Batsari council, in which hijab-wearing terrorists attacked a security post where they killed a policeman and injured another.
The council area is among those facing incessant security challenge in the state, with several people killed, maimed, or abducted over the years.
