Gunmen allegedly abducted eight people on Tuesday at the Port Harcourt International Airport Roundabout in Omuagwa, Rivers State.
About a minute’s drive from the airport roundabout, it was discovered that the thieves had blocked the left flank of the road leading from the airport.
Additionally, information was obtained indicating prior to the bandits’ attack, all of the victims were traveling from the airport axis to the Obiri-Ikwerre region.
Emmanuel Biira, one of the victims who managed to flee, claimed that three individuals were removed from his car and that one of them had been shot in the head prior to being carried away.
Biira, who barely avoided the attack, reported that more than ten different vehicles’ passengers were part in the event, which occurred close to the airport intersection.
He narrated: “Not too far from the airport junction en route to Obiri Ikwerre flyover, I ran into an ambush with about eight to 10 other cars. We all saw the kidnappers shooting and we reversed to head back to the airport junction but we were surrounded from all angles.
“People jumped out of their cars to escape and some were shot or apprehended. I jumped out to run but there was nowhere to run to and at that moment, the Lord showed me a car, spoke to me and said ‘enter under this car.’ I obeyed.
“How can a grown man enter fully under a Honda salon car that’s not jacked up without his body being seen? But because I heard His voice, that became my saving grace. Three kidnappers walked past me, dragging a man, one entered the car I was under to off the engine because the car was on.
“I’m alive together because of His mercies and covenant of protection over His children. My wife would have been a young widow if the bullets had hit me. My young children would have been fatherless but God said no. I’m grateful to Him alone. Thank you, Jesus.”