Unknown gunmen ambushed a couple in a Peugeot 407 salon car with number plate Abuja, HM 301 ABC , Sunday morning in Owerri.
The incident occurred at New Market, along Douglas Road.
An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, said that “as the man was pleading to know what his offence was, a second armed man jumped out of the Jeep, cocked his gun and told the apparently frightened man that they were not joking about the order”.
Continuing, the eyewitness said that “the confused man jumped across the gutter and was about running away from the scene when one of the hoodlums shot him at close range, and forced the man’s wife into their Jeep and drove off”.
Similarly, the driver of a Toyota bus, with registration number BS 365 MUS, who was mending his tyre at the time of the attack, was equally shot in his leg.
Passersby quickly arranged and rushed the dying man to the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, for immediate medical attention, while an army patrol team was the first to arrive the scene at about 11.30am.
Expended shells of ammunition, believed to be that of AK 47 rifle, littered the scene.