Gunmen on Friday kidnapped a man and his brother-in-law at Gbazango extension, Kubwa, Abuja.
This is happening barely three weeks after a journalist, Okechukwu Nnodim, and two others were kidnapped in the area.
According to reports, the fully-armed five-man gang invaded the residence of the victim, identified as Peter, and took him away along with his brother-in-law at about 12 am.
The abductors also shot three vigilante members who attempted to disrupt their operation.
An eyewitness, a neighbor to the victim, narrated that the armed men fired heavily for a long time before gaining access to Peter’s house, adding that the police did not respond promptly to distress calls.
“Our boys (vigilante members) were lucky because they could have been killed. The kidnappers shot three of them and also took away Peter and his brother-in-law. They also went away with two phones’; we have been calling Peter’s line but the phone was switched off,’’ the victim’s neighbor said.