Abductors of a pregnant woman identified as Mrs Okeke and two Children at Juji, in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have demanded for N30m to free the hostages.

A family sources said that gunmen invaded the Juji area of the State in the early hours of Friday and fired gunshots into the air, forcing residents to flee.

The two children aged nine and 12 were abducted in their homes by the abductors reportedly called to demand N10m each for the victims before they could be released.

Already, the hoodlums called the mobile belonging to the mother of the 12-year-old boy to make the demand.

“The gunmen requested the contacts of the pregnant woman’s husband and spoke with the parents of the nine-year-old girl. They demanded N10m from each of them,” the source said.

The source said, “We heard shots around 1am and all of us ran in different directions. I ran into a nearby bush and hid until they left. It was this morning that we discovered that they left with the nine-year-old girl and the son of a woman. The woman was also kidnapped but abandoned because of her health. She was able to find her way back to home this morning.”

Spokesman of the Nigeria police, Kaduna State Command, DSP Yakubu Sabo, has confirmed the incident, assuring that police operatives were on the trail of the kidnappers.

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