Victims rescued after they were abducted while praying on mountainÂ
Three believers who were abducted by some criminals while praying on the Idu Gbagyi Mountain in Abuja have been rescued from their captors.
The federal capital territory command of the police, on Monday, named the victims as Igbodi Emeka, Precious Uche, and Eric Chukwudi.
The police said they got report of the kidnap from the other members of the group, who escaped when the assailants attacked them.
The operation led to a gun duel with the kidnappers, Josephine Adeh, the command’s public relations officer, stated during her briefing on Monday.
Adeh stated that the police similarly rescued two other victims in another kidnapping incident.
She said: “On January 27, at about 11:30 pm, a distress call was received at Iddo Division that, sounds of gunshots were heard around Sabon Lugbe axis. A police patrol team was drafted to the scene where one Blessing Eze, female, was met with a bullet wound on her shoulder inside a Toyota Corolla car with RSH 724 KC, black in colour.
“Blessing explained that she and her husband, Joshua Eze were returning home when some hoodlums in an unknown vehicle double-crossed them, fired at their vehicle and abducted her husband to an unknown destination.
“In response, the IGP-Special Intervention Squad and the Police Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the command and other tactical sections swung into action, and the victim (Eze) was rescued unhurt at Kuje Forest on January 28, at about 06:20 pm.”
