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Gunmen kidnapped telegraph reporter’s wife, daughters , eight others in Kaduna
Muhammed Bashir, a journalist with the Nigeria Telegraph, has reported that his wife and two daughters were abducted by unidentified gunmen in Kaduna.
The kidnapping occurred on Thursday, along with ten other family members.
Bashir’s family had traveled to Kaduna earlier that day to celebrate the holiday with relatives in a suburb.
Bashir, a correspondent of the Nigeria Telegraph newspaper, confirmed the abduction to newsmen in Lokoja, Kogi State capital, on Friday evening in a brief statement.
“My dear colleagues, please, I need your prayers. My two daughters and their mother, including eight others, were kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Kaduna, where they went for a holiday.
“Please pray for me,” he wrote in the Kogi State Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists WhatsApp platform.
According to him, his family left Abuja on the same Thursday for Kaduna but got kidnapped at their residence on Thursday night.
He said that he had contacted the police and the Department of State Services (DSS) and had been informed that actions were being taken to rescue the victims and capture the gunmen.
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