Kaduna Police Command however said it was yet to receive any report on the incident.

The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Muhammad Jalige told The Nation: “We are yet to receive any report. Our men have been deployed to the area but no report yet.”

A source from the area told our correspondent::”Nobody can really say this is the number of people kidnapped, but we saw a vehicle on the road and the occupants are suspected to have been taken away by kidnappers.”

Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the last National Assembly, said in a tweet bandits have blocked the Kaduna Abuja road, shooting sporadically.

According to him: “I have just got a call that Bandits have blocked the Kaduna Abuja road,in between Jere and Katari village in this broad daylight.

“Scores of people were kidnapped while many have made a fast u-turn in the face of gunshots.”