Five inhabitants, including a family of three and their visitor, were taken hostage by a group of at least twenty armed bandits who stormed the Chikakore village in Kubwa, Abuja, on Sunday night.
A group of at least twenty armed bandits raided the Chikakore hamlet in Kubwa, Abuja, on Sunday night, taking five residents captive, including a family of three and their visitor.
A woman was hit with a gun butt during the assault, resulting in a head injury. She bled heavily and was taken to the hospital. According to reports, the bandits had already left with their prisoners when Byzahin division police officers arrived on the site.
The police came about 90 minutes after the event, which infuriated the locals who were upset about the slow reaction.
In Chikakore, the bandits have started attacking again. We require a police division in this community. A neighborhood member bemoaned to Sahara Reporters, “We have land and a five-bedroom apartment already built to accommodate the police, but there is no deployment yet.”
After escaping bandits from Katsina State detonated explosives near an Islamic school in Kuchibuyi, Bwari Area Council, in January, the attack exacerbates already existing security concerns in the Chikakore community. Two people died in that explosion.
Calls to FCT Police Command spokesperson Josephine Adeh went unanswered, making attempts to contact her for comments fruitless.
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