The police command in Bauchi has confirmed that gunmen killed one person and abducted three others, including two community leaders in the Ningi local council area. 

Police spokesman Ahmed Wakil confirmed the development in an interview on Monday in Bauchi.

He said the gunmen attacked a community known as Balma, killing one person and kidnapping three others, including two community leaders, late on Saturday.

Mr Wakil said the two community leaders were a village head in the Balma community, a ward head in the Bakutunbe community, and one other person who was also abducted.

The spokesman said the command had, on Sunday, received a report from its Balma outpost that gunmen had attacked the village.

“They shot sporadically and took away the village head, Alhaji Hussaini Saleh, who is 48 years old,” the police spokesman said.

Mr Wakil said the village head was kidnapped alongside one Idris Mai Unguwa and another man named Ya’u Gandu Maliya, 45.

“One Haruna Jibrin was, however, shot in the head by the gunmen. When the police received a distress call, a team was drafted to the scene, they rescued the victim and rushed him to General Hospital, Ningi, where he was receiving treatment, but he was later confirmed dead,” the police officer reported.

Mr Wakil added, “At present, the police in Ningi Division are combing the bush to see how they can rescue the two abducted community leaders alive.”

The spokesman appealed to citizens to always provide information on suspicious movements of people to security agencies for immediate action. 

(NAN)