Six armed gunmen on
Monday evening stormed the famous Kantin Kwari International textile
Market when traders were preparing to close for the day and carted away
large sum of money from Samfa Investment Limited.
Eye witnesses told
reporters that the gunmen attacked the market from Ibrahim Badamasi
Babangida Way where the company was located at Hadiza House and began to
shoot sporadically into the air to scare people.
“They
came to the market on three different motorcycles and attacked the
company. They fired gunshots, before they succeeded in collecting a
large sum of money,” he disclosed.
Shortly after the
attack, the suspected robbers abandoned the motorcycles and snatched a
Honda Civic car from a customer who brought women to purchase textiles
in the market before they fled the area, our source disclosed.
The Police Public
Relations Officer in the state, DSP. Rilwanu Mohammad Dutse confirmed
the attack and said there was no loss of life.
He said the police were able to engage the robbers in a shootout but they succeeded in fleeing the area.
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