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<\/p>\nThe protesters were seen burning tyres after barricading the highway leading from Kaduna to Zaria and Birnin-Gwari.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that trouble started when Kawo residents at about 9am on Monday, received information that there were three persons attempting to abduct people.<\/p>\n
The residents immediately blocked the roads leading in and out of the community and pursued the kidnappers, catching one of them and burning him on the spot.<\/p>\n
NAN learnt that one of the suspects was captured by the police.<\/p>\n
However, following the chaos, the police intervened to disperse the mob, shooting into the air and shooting a man in the crowd in error, while three others sustained injuries.<\/p>\n
An eyewitness, Mr Sadi Dauda, told NAN: \u201cI sighted a large crowd from afar and I immediately rushed down.<\/p>\n
\u201cKawo residents had received information that kidnappers, numbering three were operating in Sabon Kawo.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe crowd immediately blocked the roads. They chased the kidnappers and killed one.<\/p>\n
\u201cImmediately the police got to the scene, they started shooting sporadically to scare away people and they shot an innocent person dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour people were shot, one died. The remaining three are in Kawo General Hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, the residents are demanding that the kidnapper in police custody should be released so that they can do instant justice on him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said they won\u2019t leave unless the kidnapper is released to them,\u2019\u2019 Dauda stated.<\/p>\n
NAN reports that the Public Relations Officer of the Kaduna State Police Command, DSP. Yakubu Sabo, did not respond to enquiries on the issue.<\/p>\n
He, however, responded in a text message, saying simply: \u201cin a meeting\u201d.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Residents of Kawo community in Kaduna State on Monday burnt a suspected kidnapper and staged a protest following the alleged killing of an \u201cinnocent man\u201d by a policeman. The protesters were seen burning tyres after barricading the highway leading from Kaduna to Zaria and Birnin-Gwari. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that trouble started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,1178],"class_list":["post-118958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-kaduna","tag-kidnappers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}