Seven travellers, including a driver, have reportedly been killed in the early hours of Monday along Takum-Wukari Road.
A source in Takum told Daily Trust that the passengers, all from Takum town, were travelling from the area to Wukari when they were attacked by gunmen between Chanchangi town in Takum Local Government Area and Saai village in Benue State.
He said the gunmen opened fire on the vehicle conveying the passengers and killed all seven of them, including the driver identified as Kabiru, on the spot.
According to him, the gunmen did not remove anything from the vehicle, adding that they were suspected to be part of terrorists operating from a forest in Benue State.
The acting Police Public Relations Officer, Taraba Police Command, DSP Kwache Gambo confirmed the development to the aforementioned publication.
She, however, said six people, including a driver, were killed at a boundary area between Taraba and Benue states along Takum-Wukari Road.
Also, bandits on Monday, abducted scores of passengers in two separate attacks in Magazu village, Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
The bandits first attacked four moving vehicles around 5:15pm, killing a truck driver and abducting scores of passengers.
They returned to the same spot around 6:30pm and attacked a commercial Volkswagen Gulf and abducted passengers on board.
Eyewitness accounts revealed that during the first attack, the bandits blocked the busy highway, opened fire at four moving vehicles and their drivers lost control and ran into the bush.
When contacted, the Zamfara State Police Commissioner, CP Muhammad Shehu Dalijan confirmed only the attack on the truck driver, saying “I only heard about the attack on the truck driver. For the other attacks, I don’t have any information for now.”
