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Suspected bandits kill driver, kidnap two on Abuja-Kaduna Highway

Suspected bandits have killed a driver, known as; Danladi Jobe, just as they abducted two others along the Abuja-Kaduna highway.

A resident of Katari, Yahuza Alhassan, said the incident happened around 9:33 pm at Dogon-Fili, a few kilometres away from Jere town.

He said the deceased was returning from a neighbouring village market when the bandits suddenly emerged from the bush and opened on the car, killing the driver instantly.

According to him, one of the victims, Shuaibu, a farmer, was wisked away into the bush

โ€œThe bandits, after killing the driver, now went after the man, who is a farmer and dispossessed him of N980,000 cash, before they whisked him away alongside one other person from the car into the bush,โ€ he said.

The spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command, DSP Mansur Hassan, did not pick his calls, even as he didnโ€™t respond to text message sent to him.