Police Rescue 50
Passengers, Others Still Missing.
Police rescued fifty
suspected armed bandits, who launched an assault along the Funtua-Gusau Road,
Katsina State, after erecting a barricade near UngwarBoka Mine.
The attackers targeted
two vehicle luxury bus en route Onitsha from Sokoto, and a Volkswagen Golf
traveling from Gusau to Zaria.
According to a security
source said, due to the gunfire, both vehicles veered off the road, and the
police successfully rescued 45 passengers from the luxury bus, occupied by Igbo
descent, and five additional individuals.
He also said, all the
abducted passengers were rescued unharmed and were presently under the secured
care of the authorities, and most passengers have been safely accounted for,
while, the whereabouts of five individuals suspected to be missing in the
aftermath of the traumatic ordeal remains unknown.
He also said, the patrol
team retrieved the luxury bus from the bush with considerable difficulty and it
has been secured at the station as part of the ongoing investigation.
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