Gunmen suspected to be Kidnappers on Monday night, December 12, at about 8 pm abducted a woman at road 10 junction, Akwaka phase 2, in Rumuodomaya, Obio/Akpor Council of Rivers State.
According to a shop owner who preferred anonymity, the gunmen trailed their victim to road 10 junction where they intercepted their victim and dragged her out of her vehicle as gunshots rented the air, leaving residents and passersby to scamper for safety.
The eyewitness said the woman’s vehicle which was abandoned by the gunmen who immediately zoomed off after they had transferred the lady into their car, has been removed Tuesday morning.
Although the eyewitness could not ascertain if it was the Police that removed the victim’s vehicle.
The eyewitness said: “Yesterday,(Monday) at about 8 pp.m. we started hearing gunshots at Akwaka phase 2. Everybody was trying to check what was happening and we found out that some group of men was transferring a woman from one black Toyota Corolla.
“The gunshot was so intense that we had to hide. Later we found out that the men came with a black Sport Utility Vehicle(SUV) and they dragged the lady out of the car and drove off immediately. I can not tell who they are.
“Her car was left at that spot until this morning when I came to the shop the car has been removed.”
Similarly, the same incident occurred at the Apara link road, Off NTA road in Port Harcourt Rivers State on Tuesday, December 6, where Gunmen abducted two women at Pharmacy.
An eyewitness said one of the two women adducted was an attendant at the Pharmacy. He said the second victim was a woman who had brought her child for treatment at the Pharmacy.
The eyewitness said: “The woman with her child may have been trailed by the kidnappers. Immediately she came down from the car with her son, the two armed hoodlums who parked their SUV (Carton Colour), behind her car grabbed her, the Pharmacist attendant and zoomed off leaving the child behind”.
The suspected Kidnap incidents come barely a few days after the Commissioner of Police, in Rivers State, CP Effiong Okon gave ten days grace to criminal elements to submit their guns.
The spokesperson for the Rivers State Police Command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko was yet to get back to us when contacted.
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