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Gunmen have abducted scores of travellers on the Benin-Owo Expressway in Ifon, the headquarters of Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State.<\/p>\n
Sources\u00a0<\/span>claimed\u00a0<\/span><\/span>there\u00a0<\/span>were\u00a0<\/span>more\u00a0<\/span><\/span>than\u00a0<\/span><\/span>32 <\/span><\/span>victims,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>but <\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>exact\u00a0<\/span>number is yet to <\/span><\/span>be <\/span><\/span>ascertained.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0<\/span><\/span>victims\u00a0<\/span><\/span>were\u00a0<\/span><\/span>reportedly\u00a0<\/span><\/span>traveling\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in\u00a0<\/span>a <\/span><\/span>coaster\u00a0<\/span><\/span>bus\u00a0<\/span><\/span>from\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Benin\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Ondo\u00a0<\/span>State,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>where <\/span><\/span>they <\/span><\/span>went\u00a0<\/span><\/span>for\u00a0<\/span>a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>burial\u00a0<\/span><\/span>ritual, <\/span><\/span>according\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>one <\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>sources<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n A relation of one of the victims said, \u201cBut on getting to Ifon area, the hoodlums ambushed and whisked all the occupants of the vehicle into the bush. All the occupants of the vehicle were kidnapped since yesterday (Saturday) and nobody has heard anything about them since then\u201d.<\/p>\n READ ALSO: <\/strong>Gunmen Shoot Driver, Abduct Traditional Head And Three Others In Ondo<\/p>\n The Ondo Police Command\u2019s spokesman, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, acknowledged the event but claimed she was unable to determine how many people had been kidnapped.<\/p>\n \u201cOur men and other security agencies are already in the forest to rescue the victims unhurt, while an investigation into the incident has commenced\u201d, Odunlami added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gunmen have abducted scores of travellers on the Benin-Owo Expressway in Ifon, the headquarters of Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State. Sources\u00a0claimed\u00a0there\u00a0were\u00a0more\u00a0than\u00a032 victims,\u00a0but the\u00a0exact\u00a0number is yet to be ascertained. The\u00a0victims\u00a0were\u00a0reportedly\u00a0traveling\u00a0in\u00a0a coaster\u00a0bus\u00a0from\u00a0Benin\u00a0to\u00a0Ondo\u00a0State,\u00a0where they went\u00a0for\u00a0a\u00a0burial\u00a0ritual, according\u00a0to\u00a0one of\u00a0the\u00a0sources. A relation of one of the victims said, \u201cBut on getting to Ifon area, the hoodlums ambushed and whisked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1198497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}