Seven family members were abducted by bandits in Bwari Area Council in Abuja.
Reports said that the bandits had killed a citizen known as Alhaji who had led the police into stopping the kidnap of the seven family members.
During the altercation, two police officers were killed. According to reports, bandits have been raiding communities under the Bwari Area Council; lots of kidnapping and killings have occurred in the area recently.
Isaiah Samuel, a Bwari resident described how the criminals broke into Zuma 1 in the Bwari central ward of the Area Council early on Wednesday morning.
Samuel said:
“It was when the man suspected a strange sound in front of his house that he immediately called his brother, popularly called Alhaji to alert the police,”
He explained that Alhaji had led them to the residence where the bandits had invaded. However, Alhaji was shot to death.
In the process the bandits and the police engaged in a sporadic shooting and two policemen were also killed.
Samuel said:
“The bandits eventually succeeded in whisking away the man and his family members, because the distance from the victim’s house to where the police engaged the bandits is far,”
“The truth is that Bwari area council is under siege, because for the past two weeks now, bandits have been moving from one community to another killing and abducting people,”
Samuel explained that the Bwari communities are under attack, as the family was finally taken away by the bandits.
