Woman wounded escaping from abductors in Anambra
A 28-year-old woman yesterday sustained severe injury after coming off a speeding vehicle of her abductors in Awka, the Anambra state capital.
The victim, simply identified as Tochi, was said to have been abducted by two men at the Holy Ghost end of the Awka Ring Road.
A witness said the loud screaming of the victim while struggling with the suspects attracted passersby who pursued them with motorcycles before the lady fell off the car in a bid to escape. The witness said he was in his house when “we heard a loud shout” of the victim.
“As we came out, I saw the girl’s leg being dragged on the road by the speeding car and I quickly mounted my motorcycle and started pursuing them before she came off the vehicle with blood gushing from her face and legs,” he added.
He said the victim was later taken to Amaku Hospital (Odumegwu Ojukwu Teaching Hospital). When our reporter visited the emergency unit of the hospital, Tochi was being attended to by medical practitioners, while her siblings and relations were around thanking God for saving her.
Narrating the victim’s ordeal, one of her relations said her sister was standing in front of their house waiting for a cyclist to take her to work when she was lured inside the car by the abductors.
“Inside the car they started saying some things that are strange and said they should take an oath and at that point she recovered herself and began to shout and opened the door as the car zoomed off and in the process of dragging with them came off the car,” she added.
The abductors, said to be heading towards Nibo with a metallic ash colored Toyota Camry with registration number Delta ASB-310 AH, were said to have escaped after their vehicle somersaulted few minutes after their target exited the car. The car was later found inside a bush, badly damaged.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Nkiru Nwode (ASP) said men of the command were on the trail of the criminals and assured that they would be apprehended.