At least two persons were on Tuesday abducted in Tungan-Maje community of Gwagwalada Area Council in the federal capital territory, Abuja, Nigerian cable news online has gathered.
A resident of the area, Ibrahim Saidu, said the gunmen in their numbers went on rampage as they engaged both the police and some members of the vigilante in a shootout.
Saidu said the gunmen, who first attacked residents of Anguwar Samu in Tungan-Maje, whisked away two persons after an exchange of gunfire that lasted over an hour.
According to him, after the police were overpowered, the kidnappers proceeded to New Poultry area of the council where they also abducted two residents.
He said the police officer and a vigilante member who sustained injuries in the incident have been taken to an undisclosed hospital for treatment.
The spokesperson of the FCT police command, ASP Maryam Yusuf, neither responded to calls nor replied text messages seeking her reaction to the latest kidnap incident in the nation’s capital.