BANDITS have reportedly shot two policemen and kidnapped seven family members in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Mansoor Kadriyar and his five children were kidnapped even as Mansoor’s brother, Alhaji Abdulfatai Kadriyar, was killed in the process.
Alhaji, a middle-aged man, had led policemen to foil the kidnapping of the seven family members when he was shot dead by the bandits.
There has been a spike in cases of bandits invading villages under Bwari Area Council, abducting and killing residents in recent days.
A resident of Bwari, Isaiah Samuel, who confirmed the incident on Friday, 5 January 2024, said the attack happened in the early hours of Wednesday when the bandits invaded Zuma 1 in Bwari Central Ward of the council.
He said the bandits positioned themselves at strategic places after they had identified their victims’ house, saying the victims upon suspecting a strange sound immediately placed a call to a relation identified as Alhaji (deceased).
“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 was said to be leading a team of police to the house when one of the bandits hiding in a corner shot him dead.
Isaiah said the police also immediately started exchanging fire with the bandits, which he said led to two of the officers sustaining gunshot wounds.
“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 added.
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