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Gunmen Attack Interstate Bus, Abduct Women, Free Men

An unspecified number female travelers were abducted by unknown gunmen along the Ijebu-Ode-Ibadan Road on Tuesday.

Ekohotblog gathered that the attacked interstate bus conveying the travelers belong to the popular transport company, cross country. The bus was said to be heading to Ibadan Cross-River State.

A twitter user, simply identified as Oluwayemlex raised the alarm of the incident on social media, noting that his fiancee, Precious Patrick Ibor, was among the highway kidnap victims.

He said he became apprehensive when his fiancee stopped picking her calls. He, however, said he had reported to the Cross-Country terminal in Ibadan to know what had gone wrong.

“My fiance, Precious Patrick Ibor was in transit from Calabar to Ibadan with a CROSS-COUNTRY transport company. I last spoke to her at exactly 7:37p.m. when she told me she was at ijebu ode heading to Ibadan.

“After waiting for at least 3hrs coupled with simultaneous unanswered calls through to her, I then decided to visit CROSS-COUNTRY terminal at Ibadan where I got the shocking news of my life that their bus alongside two other buses had been attacked by gunmen being beaten up and robbed of their belongings, while the females were carted into the forest,” he narrated.

However, a staff of the Cross Country Transport Limited in Calabar, who simply identified himself as Seyi, said that the case has been reported to the police and the Anti-Kidnapping Squad (AKS) in Ibadan.

“We are trying our best to work with the law enforcement agency, because there is no way we can negotiate with the gunmen or secure the release of our passengers alone,” people Gazette quoted him to have said.

He disclosed that the gunmen had robbed only the men in the three vehicles they attacked on the road and collected their money and other expensive valuables, “after which they went away with all female passengers”.

Fadeyi Olugbenga, the Public Relations Officer of Oyo Police, said the tactical team of the police was in hot pursuit of the kidnappers with a view to apprehend them and secure release of the abductees