UNKNOWN GUNMEN ATTACK TUNGAN MAJE VILLAGE IN ABUJA, KIDNAP 10
Residents of Tungan Maje village in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja (FCTA), are in distress as unknown gunmen has kidnapped ten victims in an early morning attack on the community.
This comes days after leaked security reports from the Nigeria Customs indicated that the Boko Haram terrorists are planning coordinated attacks on the FCT.
The FCT Police Command has however rescued five of the kidnap victims.
This was made known in a press release signed by the Spokesperson of the FCT Police Command, DSP Anjuguri Manzah, on Thursday, September 10th, 2020.
Manzah said the command received a distress call that some persons were kidnapped on Thursday around 1.30pm in Tungan Maje, a village bordering FCT and Niger state.
He stated that a joint team of Police operatives from the Command Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Rapid Response Squad, and Zuba Police Division responded swiftly to the scene of the incident.
The Police Spokesperson said there was a fierce gun confrontation with the heavily armed assailants which led to the rescue of five of the ten kidnapped victims.
He said the command is doing everything in its capacity to rescue the remaining victims that are still with the hoodlums who escaped into Niger state through a nearby forest that is surrounded by rocky terrain.
Manzah assured residents of the FCT of its commitment to deploy proactive crime-fighting measures to ensure the security of lives and property.
This development follows an earlier report by Eons Intelligence in which the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), Prof. Abdulrasheed Na'Allah, said that residents and staff of the University are living in constant fear of banditry attacks.
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