No fewer than 14 travellers including the driver of an eighteen-seater commercial bus have been reportedly kidnapped on Sunday evening by unknown gunmen along Otan/Imesi Ile road, Osun State.
The dreadful incident was reportedly occurred around 5pm at Ajeoku Junction, Otanle\Imesile expressway.
Investigation revealed that the occupants of the commercial bus were said to be travelling from Osogbo to Abuja before they were accosted following the tip off from their abductors who were among the passengers, faked to be travelling with them from the park.
Account of an eye witness who would not want his name mentioned disclosed that the kidnappers pointed guns at the bus and ordered the passengers to come out before they were whisked away to an unknown destination.
He disclosed that the driver would have escaped but the deplorable state of the road hindered him.
Osun State Coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Chief Aladesawe Adedeji, while speaking confirmed the the incident, saying his men and officers of Nigerian Police Force, DSS and Vigilante group are currently trailing the suspects inside the bush.
Chief Adedeji who urged people of the state and passengers to be security conscious said all the abducted victims would be rescued without being injured.
Osun State Police Command Spokesman, Folasade Odoro could not be reached as at the time of filing this report.
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