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Three housewives have been kidnapped at Dorayi village in Zaria local government area of Kaduna state.

Zubairu Abubakar, police spokesman in the state, told NAN that the women were kidnapped on Sunday.

Abubakar said that the police were on the trail of the kidnappers and had intensified surveillance in the area.

He urged the family members to cooperate with the police to ensure the safe release of the women.

Abubakar said the kidnappers were yet to make any demand for ransom, dismissing the rumours that they had demanded for N10 million.

A source in the village had earlier told NAN that the armed kidnappers numbering about 10, seized the women around 12:15am on Sunday.

The source gave the names of the abductees as: Maimuna Abubakar (25-years-old), Mairo Hussaini (20-years-old) and Hauwa Ibrahim (20-years-old).

“The following night the same suspects went back to the village and took away two cows and a motorcycle,” he said.

Another source in the family told NAN on Thursday that the abductors had called to assure the family that the women were safe “but made no other demand”.