- A driver of one of the buses who escaped the attack reported the incident to the police in the area.
No fewer than 30 travellers have been abducted by suspected kidnappers along the Abuja-Nasarawa Highway.
Among the victims, who were kidnapped on Friday, is a student of the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa.
A source familiar with the matter and spoke with newsmen in confidence on Sunday, said that the kidnappers ambushed the vehicles conveying the travellers, abducted and took them into a nearby bush in the Uke area of Nasarawa State.
According to Punch, a driver of one of the buses who escaped the attack reported the incident to the police in the area.
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.”
The 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.
He, however, said the abducted persons were not up to 30 as claimed but did not confirm the number of the victims.
“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.