Gunmen have abducted a nursing mother, her husband, and two other women in Ndegwu community, Umunwoha, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, on Wednesday.

One of the female victims, who later escaped from the abductors, disclosed that the hoodlums suspected to be herdsmen wore military camouflage, armed with an AK 47 riffle, besieged their shop located close to the farmland of the community at about 8 pm, shot sporadically before whisking them away.

According to the witness, as they dragged the four abducted individuals into a nearby bush, she managed to escape and ran while raising the alarm.

“When they came, we initially thought they were military men. They approached us as if they wanted to buy something, but before we could understand what was happening, they pulled out their guns and ordered us to follow them. I mustered the courage to run into a nearby farmland. They even shot at me, but thankfully, I was not hit,” she stated.

Further narrating her experience, the female victim, who wished to remain anonymous, said the abductors later released the nursing mother and took her husband away along with their neighbour, known only 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 to their hideout.

Efforts by a combined team of vigilantes from the community and neighboring areas to find them have so far been unsuccessful.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Henry Okoye, was yet to respond to the incident. (The Nation)