Gunmen abducts two at midnight from Abuja estates

Dare devil gunmen invaded the Amal Pepple Estate, situated off the Kiyami village road near the Abuja Centenary City along the Lugbe/Airport Road axis, in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and abducted two residents.

A resident who spoke under anonymity on Monday explained that abductors invaded the Estate at midnight and shot sporadically thereby scaring people away from and around their targets before they kidnapped their victims.

The entire estate residents were thrown into panic as they could not sleep before day break, particularly that there are reports that this was the first time abductors invaded the estates.

The gunfire lasted for hours, shattering the calm and jolting residents from their sleep, before the assailants were repelled by a combined team of estate security and police backup, preventing them from moving to the next house to abduct more victims.

An eyewitness disclosed to newsmen that a young man managed to escape being kidnapped but sustained severe injuries to his right arm from a machete attack. Unfortunately, his mother was not so lucky; she and another person were taken by the assailants.

This attack occurred just five days after a similar incident in the nearby ACO Estate, where attackers killed one gateman and abducted two residents.