No fewer that eight women have been abducted by unknown gunmen on a farm in Gwombe village, Gwargwada Chiefdom in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
A resident of Gwargwada, Usman Yakubu, said the incident occurred around 5pm on Monday evening.
Yakubu noted that the women, all housewives, harvesting benni seed when the gunmen wielding AK-47 rifles appeared and surrounded them.
A chief from a village in the chiefdom, who preferred anonymity, confirmed the abduction, saying, “In fact, four among the women are from one house.”
“I suspect that these gunmen that abducted our women are among those ones that escaped from neighbouring Kabbi village who were roaming inside the bush after Miyetti Allah vigilantes neutralised some of them over the weekend,” he added.
The attack happened barely 48 hours after gunmen abducted the father of the vice chairman of Kwali Area Council of the FCT, alongside six others in Yewuti village.
