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No fewer than 20 gun-wielding bandits attacked Chikakore group in Kubwa within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Sunday night, kidnapping 5 residents together with a complete household.
The Bureau Newspaper learnt on Monday from police sources that the attackers invaded the Well being Centre extension axis of Chikakore, round 11pm, forcing themselves into the homes of their victims, together with a Southwesterner, Adesiyan Akinropo.
“They kidnapped the person (Akinropo), his spouse and his son, their customer. The bandits then took away one other neighbour to make 5 individuals.
“The bandits additionally injured a lady on the top, with the butt of the gun. She bled profusely and needed to be rushed to the hospital. The police operatives from the Byzahin division later got here to the realm however the assailants had escaped,” the supply disclosed to The Bureau Newspaper.
The Bureau Newspaper learnt that the police operatives and the group leaders had scheduled a gathering for Monday to debate the incident.
One of many residents instructed The Bureau Newspaper that the police operatives got here an hour and a half after the incident had occurred.
“The bandits have resumed assaults in Chikakore. We’d like a police division right here on this group. We have now land and a five-bedroom condo already constructed to accommodate the police however there is no such thing as a deployment but.
“Within the Sunday incident, the policemen got here one and a half hours after the bandits had escaped with their victims,” she lamented.
Efforts to achieve the FCT police command for remark failed as its spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, didn’t reply calls from our reporter.
The Chikakore group, situated simply 5 kilometers from Kuchibuyi, skilled an incident in early January when bandits who had fled from Kankara Native Authorities Space in Katsina State detonated explosives within the space.
The tragic explosion at an Islamic college in Kuchibuyi within the Bwari Space Council of Abuja claimed not less than two lives, in accordance with the police.
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