Gunmen storm Abuja estate, kidnap residents

Some gunmen who were suspected to be bandits early hours of Monday launched a massive attack on Gwarinpa Estate in the Federal Capital Territory.

The suspected bandits had an operation on the estate, for close to three hours, between 1am and 4am, kidnapping an unidentified number of residents.

Mohammed who’s, a resident of the area said the bandits penetrated the Genuine Estate after Efab Queens on 6th Avenue, Gwarinpa.

He said that the bandits, who were many in number, were heavily armed with deadly weapons such as bows, arrows, and machetes.

The spokesman of the police in the state, Josephine Adeh, said that the case was not a kidnapping case, but a robbery case.

Adeh, who’s a Deputy Superintendent of Police, has said that men of the police force had been sent to the affected area, to quell the incident.

Details later…