No fewer than 30 passengers have allegedly been kidnapped by armed bandits at Garun-Gabas in Rafi Local Government Council of Niger State.
According to reports, the victims, who were said to be traveling in three separate vehicles, were abducted Wednesday afternoon along the Zungeru-Garin-Gabas highway.
It was gathered that they were traveling in an 18-seater bus and two other vehicles when they ran into the gunmen.
According to eyewitnesses, the bandits blocked the road shooting sporadically into the air to scare villagers who scampered to various directions before whisking the passengers away to an unknown location..
A resident of the area who pleaded anonimity, said after kidnapping the travellers the bandits in large numbers ran into the Kundu forest in Rafi to rustle cattles.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, when contacted, promised to get back, but is yet to do so as at the time of filing in this report.
