Armed hoodlums suspected to be kidnappers attacked again and killed a man yet to be identified when he was travelling with his family in Enugu State.
It was gathered from sources that the gunmen attacked the family and killed the man at the spot while his wife and daughter were whisked away.
The incident reportedly happened yesterday, March 10, along Afa/Egede Road in Udi LGA Enugu State.
The spokesman of Enugu State Police command Daniel Ndukwe who confirmed the incident said that the manhunt of the armed hoodlums and rescue of the kidnapped victims are ongoing.
“Manhunt of the armed men and rescue of the two reportedly abducted victims are ongoing. Further development will be communicated,” he said.
For the past twelve years, Nigerians have experienced high level of insecurity in the country. Vanguard had reported series of attacks from terrorists, bandits, armed men, herdsmen, armed robbers, thuggery, and unknown masked men in virtually all the 36 states in the country.
Nigerian security personnel have been killing, arresting and launching counter attacks against these hoodlums.
Vanguard had reported how an abducted victims recently freed from captivity revealed that kidnappers use poisonous snakes to terrorise them.
The victims noted that there were many snakes in the forests inhabitated by the bandits. They said that the snakes often bite both the kidnappers and the victims.
One of them, who craved anonymity, told NAN that kidnappers threw them into snake-infested spots.
“The kidnappers know the areas infested with snakes and would often throw the victims there.
“Immediately they see snakes, the fear-stricken victims will want to run away. The sight is used to frighten people.
“That is the time a victim can ask friends and family members to sell everything – house, land, cars, household items, shoes, just everything – to raise the ransom.”
