The bandits who kidnapped a bride and over 60 ladies accompanying her to her matrimonial dwelling in Damari, Sabuwa LGA of Katsina State, final Thursday have launched a video displaying the captives.
A video that has gained important consideration on social media exhibits the group of bandits making threats, demanding ransom from the captor’s kin, or else they are going to power the already-married bride to marry another person.
In the video, the chief of the gang, wearing a police uniform, said that there have been 63 captives.
They additionally threatened to dump the opposite marriage ceremony friends if their calls for weren’t met.
The bride and the marriage friends who have been a part of the convoy have been kidnapped on Thursday, February 1.
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The victims, who have been reportedly mates of the bride from Dandume, have been ambushed at Sabuwa whereas they have been on their approach in an open van.
“I am the one who abducted them, and I will never release them until ransom is paid. And if there is anyone who thinks they could rescue them, they should try it,” the gang chief mentioned within the video.
The Katsina State Government disclosed that it had commenced rescue operations in response to the kidnapping incident
The state Internal Security Commissioner, Muazu Nasiru, mentioned on Thursday, February 3, that the federal government was conscious of the kidnapping of the marriage friends and had launched operations to make sure that the victims have been rescued.
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