No fewer than three persons have been abducted from their home in Pegi community in the Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The incident, it was gathered, happened late Saturday.
The kidnapped persons were said to be mother and daughters.
Our correspondent gathered that the father, a pastor, was away when the attack happened.
A resident of the area, who gave his name simply as Eze, said the armed men scaled the fence and broke the door.
“The bandits came to pastor’s house at a resettlement area in Zone A. They were all women in the house when they came. They were heavily armed. They forced their way in and took them away,” he said.
The father and the husband of the victims, Pastor Gabriel Oladapo, said, “The bandits cut my fence’s barb wire and scaled the fence.