Five of the six sisters of the Al-Kadriyar family who were kidnapped earlier this month by bandits in the Bwari area of Abuja have been freed by their captors.
The siblings as well as other hostages were taken to the kidnapping gang’s hideout at Kajuru Forest in nearby Kaduna State. The Nigerian police say they busted the forest base on Jan. 20, freeing the girls.
The kidnappers had demanded a ransom for their release, but the statement by the police made no mention of any being paid.
The five sisters, aged from the early teens to 23, were seized alongside their father, Mansoor Al-Kadriyar and another sister who was later killed, on Jan. 2 at the family home in Bwari, a suburb of Abuja which is 15 miles from Abuja city centre.
The attackers killed one sister, 21-year-old Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar when a ransom deadline passed and threatened to kill the other five should the family fail to provide a N100 million (US$109,944) ransom.
Read more: https://www.thecable.ng/just-in-abducted-sisters-regain-freedom-from-kidnappers-in-abuja/
—Ezinwanne Onwuka reports for TruthNigeria from Abuja.
