The estate is located along the popular Dutse-Bwari Road.
By Deborah Hassan
365Daily – Kidnappers on Sunday, January 7, 2023, invaded an estate and took away not less than 10 persons from the confines of their homes in Sagwari Layout Estate, Dutse, Abuja.
The estate is located along the popular Dutse-Bwari Road.
An eyewitness who spoke to 356Daily but didn’t want her identity revealed said she started hearing gunshots between 7 and 9pm and became alarmed.
“I peeped out of the window the first time I heard the gunshot from afar. Then it got closer and I became scared. My husband is out of town so I didn’t know what to do. I later composed myself and ran to my friend’s house.
“After the kidnappers left, I returned home to find some of my neighbours gone. The kidnappers who came from the hill behind our estate took them away,” she said.
She added that two workers in a nearby hotel were also taken away, adding that some Department of State Security (DSS) officials later came to the estate and shot in the air, but none of the kidnapped victims were rescued.
365Daily learnt that security operatives are working with the estate security guards to search the hills behind the estate in a rescue operation.