Crime and Law
Gunmen kill 2 passengers, abduct corps member, other


Two passengers on Saturday, were reportedly shot dead while five others including a female corps member were abducted by suspected gunmen in Ondo State.
Sources revealed that fifteen suspected gunmen abducted the victims along the Ifon/Owo Expressway in the Ose Local Council area of the state.
Two other passengers reportedly escaped with various degrees of wounds sustained from gunshots.
The bandits were said to be armed with AK-47 rifles and ambushed the commuters at Omi Alafa Village in the Ifon community.
They reportedly fired sporadically at the Sienna bus.
Eyewitness accounts swiftly reported the attack to police detectives in lfon.
According to reports the commercial vehicle was coming from Anambra State with passengers heading to Owo and Akure, the state capital when the incident occurred.
A police source said that the corpses of the passengers have been deposited at the morgue of a private hospital in Ifon.
Contacted, the police spokesperson, Funmi Odunlami confirmed the ugly incident.
Odunlami who said that the details were still sketchy, however, added that“our men are fully on the ground, combing the forest to ensure that the kidnapped victims are rescued.
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