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No fewer than 30 travellers, including some students of the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa were reportedly abducted by unknown kidnappers along Abuja highway.
Rocketparrot News leant that the abductors laid siege to the vehicles conveying the travellers and abducted them into a nearby bush in the Uke area of Nasarawa State.
A source who pleaded anonymity disclosed that the students were returning back to their family in Abuja when the incident occurred.
Following the incident, one of the buses who escaped the attack called the attention of the police in the area to the incident.
The source said, “Thirty persons were kidnapped between Nasarawa and Abuja on Friday. The passengers were abducted from two buses and taken into the bush around a place called Uke in Nasarawa State.
“One of the passengers abducted in the incidents is an HND student of the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa, in Nasarawa State, who was returning to Abuja to meet her family.
“One of the bus drivers escaped from the incident. When he returned to the vehicle, he picked up some items, including the phone of one of the kidnapped victims, and reported the incident to the police station in Uke.”
Nasarawa police Public Relations Officer, Rahman Nansel, confirmed the incident stressing that three victims had been rescued while a search and rescue operation was ongoing.
“The number (30) was exaggerated. An 18-seater bus was recovered at the scene and three people were rescued. A search and rescue operation is still ongoing,” Nansel said.
