The Nigerian Army troops in Kogi in collaboration with three Police successfully rescued 25 out of 33 passengers abducted by armed hoodlums on May 4 along the Kabbajunction-Obajana road in Lokoja.
Spurces said the victims, traveling in two Toyota Haice buses, were intercepted by the hoodlums at the Gada Biyu area.
One of the buses, registered SMK 998 XQ and carrying 14 passengers from Abuja to Lagos, and the other with 19 passengers traveling from Kano to Ekiti State, were forcefully stopped.
The armed assailants abducted all the passengers and took them into the bush. During the attack, the yet-to-be-identified driver of the second bus sustained a gunshot wound and was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre in Lokoja for treatment.
Upon receiving the distress call, a joint patrol team comprising of the Nigerian Army, the police and local vigilantes were swiftly dispatched to the scene.
The joint security forces engaged the hoodlums in a gun duel, resulting in the abandonment of 25 of the victims as the criminals fled. The rescued passengers were brought to the police station unharmed.
Efforts to locate the hideout of the criminals and rescue the remaining victims has been intensified.
Source: Zagazola Makama
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