Gunmen suspected to be terrorists on Tuesday night killed Daniel Yatai, the father of Philip Yatai, a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN), and abducted his niece, Brenda, in Manchok, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
ait.live gathered they also abducted, Amos Magbon, the Rector of the Federal School of Statistics, Manchok, the night before in the same Local Government Area.
The 86 year old victim, Daniel Yatai, retired from the Nigerian Railway Corporation in 1991.
The second child of the victim who witnessed attack, Christiana Yatai, said the gunmen came to the house at about 11:15 pm.
She said they were five of them in the house at the time – herself, her father, mother, niece and a nephew, adding that the gunmen ordered them to open the door and when they refused, they broke the main entrance and gained access to the house and one of them wearing a mask, who was outside, shot her father through the window, and the bullet hit him from the back.
Christiana also said the gunmen went away with her niece, Brenda Friday, a 21-year old final year student of the Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya.
Another child of the deceased, Joseph Yatai, said the gunmen had contacted the family and demanded N15 million Naira to release the girl.
Similarly, the brother of the rector, Innocent Magbon, said the gunmen had also reached out to the family asking for a 15 million Naira ransom.
Kaduna State Police Command spokesman, Deputy Superintendent Mohammed Jalige is yet to respond to enquiries on the attack
Editor Oloyede Oworu
