Village heads in Bashar District in the Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State have fled as a result of attacks by bandidos.
Bashar is the hometown of the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Idris Ahmed Wase.
According to Abdullah Usman, a resident of Sabon Gari village, the village heads and other residents had fled, Daily Trust reports.
He said, "The kidnappers attack and kidnap villagers and ask for ransom. If you don’t have money, they kill you. In some cases, they tie you up with ropes.
"On Sunday, they attacked Sabon Gari village and killed three persons. Yesterday (Tuesday), they kidnapped two persons in Yalun village. We are in serious trouble. We are now at the mercy of kidnappers. Village heads of Bangalala, Kinashe, Aduwa and Achale have already fled their areas. The villages are under the total control of kidnappers."
Abdulhamid Cikaaiki, a resident of Bunyum village, also said they were planning to flee the village as kidnappers had dominated villages surrounding Bunyum and had been attacking them on a daily basis.
The front man for Operation Safe Haven, Major Ishaku Takwa, when contacted on the development, said the troops responded to a distress call in the early hours of Tuesday about the bandit attacks and kidnapping in Wase.
Four members of Iraq's federal police were reportedly injured in a bomb attack in the vicinity of the district of Daquq, southern Kirkuk, earlier today, Thursday.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that a roadside bomb hit a patrol of the federal police near the village of al-Zajji, south of Daquq.
Four members of the 20th brigade of the federal police's fifth division were injured in the attack, the source said.
"A security force rushed to the site and transferred the injured officers to the hospital. A combing campaign was launched to track the perpetrators," the source added.
The Iraqi security forces on Thursday launched a series of large-scale military operations to pursue ISIS remnants in the northern villages of al-Miqdadiyah district, 40 kilometers to the northeast of Baqubah, Diyala's capital city.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that a joint force from the police departments of al-Miqdadiyah and al-Mansouriyah, accompanied by explosive ordinance disposal and communication unit, carried a search campaign in the villages of Khams Josour, Hamandaliyah, Tawakol, Sharqraq, Wuloush, and Shamamleh, and Jazira, in the north of al-Miqdadiyah and the territories adjacent to the Diyala basin near al-Mansouriyah.
The operations aimed, according to the source, "to track the terrorist groups, destroy their hideouts, execute arrest warrants, and hinder ISIS forces of Evil from sheltering in the villages and orchards located at the outskirts of al-Miqdadiyah."
A patrol of #SDF was attacked by unknown gunmen, and two members lost their lives and another was wounded in #Syria’s Deir_ez_zor. https://t.co/gb1pSTXhft
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced, yesterday, the arrest of an Iraqi ISIS member in Raqqa, northern Syria.
The SDF said its special units arrested an ISIS member while trying to head towards Ottoman Turkish territory at one of its checkpoints in Raqqa.
The SDF published the confessions of the ISIS member Abdullah Abdulkarim Abdullah, who was injured and was on his way to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... to receive treatment in Urfa or Gaziantep hospitals.
government forces stormed tents of IDPs in #Syria’s #Daraa, arrested 6 young men and stole the contents of the tents, local sources said.https://t.co/2Hvonl0Jdc
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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