Kidnappers have again invaded Grow Homes Estate along Kuchibiyi in the Kubwa area of the Federal Capital Territory and abducted nine persons.
This comes barely eight months after gunmen attacked the estate and abducted nine persons.
The recent incident, which took place around 9 pm on Thursday night, had a couple and another man taken from separate apartments in the estate.
It was gathered that the gunmen escaped through the bush track which links the community to another village.
A security source at the estate, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press, said after storming the area around 9 p.m., the gunmen shot sporadically into the air to scare people away.
Narrating how the incident happened, the source said: “On Thursday around 9 pm, we (vigilante) heard a gunshot. After hearing the sound, we and some Nigeria Mobile Police (MOPOL) officers searched around to locate it.
“On our way, we saw one of us. He told us they were kidnappers, numbering over 20. He was shot in his hand. At that point, we heard another gunshot. They were shooting at us, while the officers were shooting too.
“We had to stop the counterattack because of their number. They took away three persons; a couple and a man. The kidnappers haven’t contacted anyone yet.”
A resident of the area, Bello Mohammed, said the kidnappers disconnected the alert systems of the houses attacked before whisking their victims away.
When contacted, Josephine Adeh, Police Public Relations Officer of the FCT, said she would get back to our reporter, but had yet to do so at the time of filing this report.