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According to Daily Trust, on Thursday, bandits stormed Ariko village, a Fulani community in Kachia LGA of Kaduna State, where they killed two people and kidnapped three more. Yesterday, according to sources in Jere town, the incident took place when the bandits raided one Alhaji Awu's home in Ariko village in an effort to kidnap him. The bandits took him out of the compound after he allegedly resisted them. They abducted Alhaji Awu and his two children, a boy and a girl, against their will. Alhaji Awu's hugged her son in a pool of his own blood, and the bandits smiled as they witnessed it, he claimed.