Bandits terrorising the Bwari area of the Federal Capital Territory have abducted seven family members, injured two police and killed an elderly man during a raid Wednesday in Zuma 1 ward Bwari council.
According to Daily trust reports the bandits have been raiding communities in the Bwari Area Council killing and abducting people and on Wednesday a middle-aged man, simply identified as Alhaji, who led policemen to foil the kidnapping of the seven family members, was shot dead by the bandits.
“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,” said Isaiah Samuel
Alhaji was said to be leading a team of police to the house when one of the bandits hiding at a corner shot him dead.
Samuel 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.
“The truth is that the Bwari area council is under siege, because for the past two weeks now, bandits have been moving from one community to another killing and abducting people,” he said.
