A large number of men, suspected to be bandits, in the early hours of Monday, reportedly attacked a private estate, Genuine Estate, in the Gwarinpa area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
A report by SaharaReporters said that the bandits, who were wielded machetes, daggers, and cutlasses, outnumbered and overpowered the security guards and invaded some houses on the estate.
“They operated on the estate for about three hours. They abducted some of the residents,” a source was quoted to have said, even as details still remained sketchy as of press time.
The bandits who got to the estate on 6th avenue behind Efab Queens, around 1 am, left the place after 4 am.
However, the spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, Josephine Adeh, said the case was a robbery case, and not kidnapping.
Adeh, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the police had already been mobilised to the scene to ascertain how the incident happened.
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