Crimes/Tragedy

Gunmen Storm Kwara Community, Kidnap Three Persons, Kill Chief

Some gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Friday night at about 9p.m stormed Iwo Community in Isin Local Government Area of Kwara State, abducted three persons and killed a Chief in the town.

It was gathered through credible sources in the town that the gunmen attacked a filling station at Sabaja area of the town at about 9p.m, abducted the Manager and a security guard of the station as well as a Cleric of the Christ Apostolic Church, (CAC) who were all taken taken away to an unknown destination.

The source also confirmed that a Chief of Sabaja community identified as Chief Raphael Adewuyi was killed by a stray bullet in his room.

It was further gathered sporadic gunshot took over the atmosphere at the Fuel filling station while pandemonium reigned around the place with residents running helter-skelter for dear lives.

Chairman of the Transition implementation Committee (TIC) in Isin local government Council of Kwara state, Engineer Tunde Fadipe, who confirmed the incident on Saturday said that a Chief of the town was killed by stray bullet during the incident.

“Three people including the manager of the Petrol station, the Security guard and a Pastor of a Church were abducted during the incident while a Chief was hit by a stray bullet in his house during the operation”, he said.

Fadipe said that the Council in conjunction with the Police and other Security forces have mobilized the security to go after the gunmen and rescue the three people abducted.

The spokesperson of the Kwara state Police Command SP Okasanmi Ajayi confirmed the incident and said that 3 people were abducted by the kidnappers at the Petrol station in Iwo community on Friday night.

Okasanmi said, “3 people were abducted at Iwo on Friday while one man was hit by stray bullet in his house. We have sent our men and the vigilante members to go after the abductors and rescue the three people, but we are yet to record success. I’m sure that the three people are going to be rescued.”

He said that that he was not sure whether the abductors had made contacts with members of the families of the abducted people.
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