No fewer than 15 travellers were on Thursday abducted by gunmen in the Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State
It was gathered that the victims were kidnapped along Adoka-Naka Road.
Speaking to journalists on the incident, the Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers, in charge of High Level Unit, Yakubu Onu, confirmed the incident, while lamenting the ordeal of transporters plying that road.
Onu said two vehicles conveying the travellers were involved in the incident.
He said, the driver and the three passengers who were spared went to report at Naka police station and were asked to continue their journey.
The Ter Tyorshin in Gwer West, His Royal Highness, Daniel Abomtse, also confirmed that two commercial vehicles were hijacked and passengers abducted on Naka/Adoka Road.
He disclosed that the incident happened just three kilometers to Naka town and promised to get the details later.
However, The Benue State Police Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Sewuese Anene, is yet to confirm details of the abduction.
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