By Samuel Oyadongha

Yenagoa—An engineer, Duncan Eke, was Sunday kidnapped when gunmen invaded a church at Igbedi community in Kolokuma-Opokuma council of Bayelsa State.

The gunmen also shot and injured the officiating cleric, Reverend Ezekiel Obata.

A source told Vanguard that the gunmen may have trailed their victim to the church, where he was forcibly taken away in a speedboat at about 12.40a.m. triggering pandemonium.

Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Asinim Butswat, said the injured clergyman was rushed to a clinic in neighbouring Polaku community for treatment.

He added that efforts had been intensified to rescue the victim and arrest the kidnappers.