He told the Dailytimes that the bandits appeared in front of the vehicles in transit weapons and threw tree branches on the road to compel them to stop.

“We did not stop, they targeted me, since I was driving but as Allah will have it, the bullet missed my head.”

No one was hurt, he said, except for minor injuries from broken glasses.

Birnin Gwari is one of Kaduna State’s Local Government Areas with a high level of attacks.