A 15-man gang of criminals attacked Gbaupe, a remote village in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, Sunday night, whisking off 12 people, including a 9-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl to an unknown place.
Local civilian guards, commonly known as vigilantes, confronted the bandits to rescue the hostages, but their homemade pipe shotguns were no match for the assault rifles and machine guns of the gunmen. The bandits slew one vigilante.
An eyewitness said the gunmen operated freely between 12:15 a.m. and 2:46 a.m. “Twelve people were kidnapped, including three young people and women,Vanguard reported. Two men later escaped. This is the third incident this year,” he said.
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—Ezinwanne Onwuka reports for TruthNigeria from Abuja.
