Many people have been feared kidnapped along Kaduna-Abuja highway on Friday.
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Kaduna Police Command however said it was yet to receive any report on the incident.
The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Muhammad Jalige told The Nation: “We are yet to receive any report. Our men have been deployed to the area but no report yet.”
The incident was said to have happened at about 4:00pm on Friday at Kurmin Kare village.
A source from the area told our correspondent::”Nobody can really say this is the number of people kidnapped, but we saw a vehicle on the road and the occupants are suspected to have been taken away by kidnappers.”
Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the last National Assembly, said in a tweet bandits have blocked the Kaduna Abuja road, shooting sporadically.
According to him: “I have just got a call that Bandits have blocked the Kaduna Abuja road,in between Jere and Katari village in this broad daylight.
“Scores of people were kidnapped while many have made a fast u-turn in the face of gunshots.”