By Africa 24 news

 “We’re attacked at home at late mid-night while it was raining,” says one Sheikh Ibrahim Khalil, in Freetown.

News of his attack  and his family was relayed by his friend on Wednesday 29 November, 2023.

“He told me they saw men apparently those who escaped from prison earlier and they were holding rifle guns. He said they saw them through the window as they were calling them terrifyingly to come outside and be killed,” said Khalil’s friend.

“Come outside let us kill you,” they said onto them.

“They [ the armed robbers] were shouting loudly at them, kicking their doors heavily for minutes at Wednesday’s midnight.

“Ibrahim told me they were very afraid; they felt like a scene of yester-gone years of rebels attacking and setting houses alight.”

These distasteful events followed Sunday 26 ‘military’ security breach which left some soldiers dead after an army’s armoury was being attacked at around 3 a.m at Wilberforce barracks in the west of Freetown.

It also followed a prison break of Sierra Leone oldest Pademba Road male correctional centre last week Sunday.

Since then there have been some pockets of reports of military men exchanging firing in the capital, putting at risk and in deep fear among innocent civilians and foreign nationals.

The government of Sierra Leone had lately described the incidents as ‘not a security break but an attempted coup’ and has promised culprits to be arrested while investigations continue.

But, many Sierra Leoneans are still afraid of their lives following the incidents on Sunday and on Monday, which saw many shops and stores closed.

“We are not safe yet in this country”, a man said to others while Khalil’s friend was giving the news of a terror attack by some armed robbers.