Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have kidnapped a nursing mother, her husband and two other women at Ndegwu community, Umunwoha in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State.
One of the female victims who later escaped from the kidnappers said that the hoodlums suspected to be herdsmen wore military camouflage, armed with an AK-47 rifle, stormed their shop located close to the farmlands of the community at about 8 p.m., shot sporadically before whisking them away.
According to the witness, as they dragged the four of them kidnapped into a nearby bush, she managed to escape from them and ran raising alarm.
“When they came, at first we thought they were military men; they approached us as if they wanted to buy something before we could know what was happening they brought out their guns and ordered us to follow them. But I gathered up courage to run into a nearby farmland; they even shot at me but thank God I was not struck by their bullets.”
Speaking further, the female victim whose name was not disclosed as at the time of this report, said the abductors later released the nursing mother and took her husband away along with their neighbour simply known as Odinaka.
“But the gunmen later released one of the victims after her husband abducted alongside with her pleaded they should release his wife because she’s nursing a baby.
“While the gunmen released the nursing mother, they took the husband and Odinaka with them to their hideout.
However, efforts by the combined team of vigilantes from the community and its neighbour to search for them have not yielded any result.