Nigeria Content Online

A correspondent of
Vanguard newspapers in Kano State, Abdulsalam Muhammad, and his family
escaped death by their whiskers when they ran into hundreds of rioters
along eastern by pass in Kano yesterday.

Mr. Muhammad was
travelling on the highway with his entire family to his residence in
Naibawa quarters of the municipality when they ran into hundreds of
hoodlums.

The hoodlums who
were mainly teenagers were being supervised by a man in his early 40s,
and without provocation descended on them and in the ensuing melee, his
wife Safiya Lawal was attacked with weapons.

Others who sustained
injury in the attack include Umi Zabaida Muhammad( 6) and his younger
brother Muhammad Naziru Muhammad (3) sustained various degree of injury.

His personal car was vandalised while trying to escape the furry of the rioters.

Several other
motorists travelling on the highways suffered the same fate as no fewer
than 8 burnt vehicles littered the entire stretch of the strategic
highways.