File photo: Ondo State map
The police and hunters in Ondo State have rescued 12 passengers abducted by suspected kidnappers in Isua Akoko, the headquarters of Akoko South-East Local Government Area of the state.
This was disclosed on Saturday in a statement by the spokesperson for the Ondo State Police Command, Abayomi Jimoh.
He said the victims were kidnapped in the early hours of Saturday (yesterday) while travelling in two commercial Hummer buses from Benue State to Ibadan.
“The command received a distress report at about 0130hrs that two commercial Hummer buses conveying passengers from Benue State en route Ibadan had been violently intercepted by suspected armed kidnappers. The attackers reportedly forced several passengers out of the vehicles and marched them into a nearby forest,” he said.
