Gunmen storm Gwarimpa Estate Abuja, abduct residents

Gunmen suspected to be bandits in the early hours of Monday attacked Gwarinpa Estate in the Federal Capital Territory.

Multiple sources confirm to NewsWireNGR, that the gunmen operated on the estate between 1am and 4am, abducting a yet-to-be-identified number of residents.

Another resident, who simply identified himself as Mohammed tells Dailytrust, the gunmen gained access to Genuine Estate after Efab Queens on 6th Avenue, Gwarinpa.

He explained that the hoodlums were armed with bows, arrows, and machetes and were in large numbers.

When contacted, the spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, Josephine Adeh, told newsmen that the case was a robbery case not a kidnapping case.

Adeh, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the police had already been mobilised to the scene to ascertain how the incident happened.

Details are strill sketchy but we will be following this story and update our readers, in the meantime, there’s been some reactions on twitter.