Kidnappers have killed one person and seized seven members of a family and wounded two policemen when they invaded Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The man killed has been identified as Alhaji.
Alhaji reportedly led policemen to confront the kidnappers when they gunned him down.
A Bwari resident, Isaiah Samuel, on Friday, said the attack was in the early hours of Wednesday, when the bandits stormed Zuma 1 in Bwari central ward of the council.
He said the gunmen took strategic positions after identifying their victims’ house, adding that, “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 said.
Alhaji then led police men to the house when one of the bandits hiding at a corner fired at him and he died instantly.
Samuel narrated that the police also immediately started exchanging fire with the bandits, and in the process two cops were wounded.
“The bandits eventually succeeded in whisking away the man and his family members, because the distance from the victims’ house to where the police engaged the bandits is far,” he said.
Samuel said the bandits attacked Barangoni, still in Bwari central ward and abducted three persons, while injuring a vigilante member. Early Tuesday morning.
He said “the truth is that the 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,” he said.
The spokesperson of the FCT Police Command, SP Adeh Josephine, was yet to react to the development as at the time of this report.
