A nursing mother and her baby have been rescued by security operatives after being kidnapped by gunmen who invaded Tudun Mun tsira village of Zangon Shanu, Samaru in Sabon Gari Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

Daily Trust reported that an elderly man, Mallam Abubakar Garba Aliyu, who was said to have relocated to the area recently, was also kidnapped along with his son, Salimi Abubakar, in Hayin Liman of the same area.

The attack was carried out in the early hours of Friday February 11, and has left people in the two areas in panic.

An eyewitness told the publication; 

 “The gunmen came in large number and invaded the area through the back fence of the university. They rode on motorbikes carrying sophisticated arms.

“We assumed they came from kasuwar Da’a axis in Giwa Local Government Area which is very close to our settlement.

“They picked a nursing mother and her baby at Tudun Mun Tsira village before proceeding to Hayin Liman where they abducted an elderly man, one Alhaji Abubakar along with his grown-up son.”

The security operatives who responded to a distress call from the community, rescued the baby and her nursing mother.