A cattle dealer, Alhassan Dogara, has been reportedly killed by unknown gunmen at Chitumu, a community near Zuba town in Gwagwalada area council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
It was learnt that the gunmen also abducted one of his daughters named Fatima, 14.
Daily Trust reports that gunmen attacked the community in the early hours of Saturday.
Muhammad Liman, Secretary to the community’s village head, said the attackers numbering about fifteen, arrived some minutes after 12am, and went straight to the house of a cattle dealer, one Isiaka Alhassan Dogara.
“They immediately abducted him with one of his daughters named Fatima, aged 14. Some of the gunmen killed the father, Alhassan Dogara, as the wives of the abducted person raised alarm,” Liman said.
He further stated that three uncles of the man that rushed to the scene sustained injuries.
Meanwhile, one Adamu Musa who was shot on his abdomen, has been reportedly referred to the Abuja University Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada.