Following the spate of insecurity in the nation, a 16-year-old boy alongside six girls, have been abducted from Gidan -Bijimi in Kawu ward of Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Gidan -Bijimi community shares boundary with neighboring Marke village around the border of Kaduna state.
A resident of Kawu, Suleiman Shuaibu, who confirmed the incident to newsmen on Thursday, morning, said the bandits wielding AK-47 in raided two houses in community around 9:47 pm and whisked away six young girls including a 16 year old boy amid sporadic shooting.
He said residents of the community were thrown into pandemonium.
According to him, some vigilantes in the community tried to engage the bandits but were forced to run for cover as a result of the superior fire power.
Shuaibu said the abducted girls were between the ages of 17 and 23 years.
“It was around 9:53 pm when a call came from Gidan -Bijimi community that some bandits invaded the village and abducted six young girls, unfortunately my cousin sister happened to be among the victims,”he said.
He said some residents were forced to flee their homes after the incident, even as he said contact is yet to be established with the abductors.
SP Josephine Adeh, spokeswoman of the FCT Police Command, did not respond to calls put across to her and did not also reply to text message as at the time of filling the report.