Eight charcoal sellers abducted by gunmen in Plateau community

Eight charcoal sellers were connected Tuesday nighttime abducted by gunmen successful Nyalun assemblage of Bashar District successful Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State.

A assemblage younker leader, Shapi’i Sambo, who confirmed the abduction to journalists connected Wednesday, said the victims were returning location aft adjacent of concern erstwhile the gunmen ambushed their conveyance and abducted 10 of them but aboriginal released 2 successful Garga, Kanam Local Government Area, to relay a ransom request to the families of the victims.

Sambo said the abductors whitethorn person taken the victims into a hideout successful the Kukawa wood which has go a notorious hideout for transgression groups operating successful parts of Plateau State, including Kanam and Wase LGAs.

“The victims were returning astir 7:30 p.m. erstwhile the perpetrators abruptly stopped their conveyance loaded with charcoal and took them away. We judge they were taken to the notorious Kukawa wood which serves arsenic hideouts for criminals and bandits,” Sambo said.

According to Sambo, the abducted charcoal workers were identified arsenic Hassan Sa’idu, Shamsudden Abubakar, Usamatu Yakubu, Dayyabu Usman Waziri, Inkilulu Dauda, Ado Sambo, Sule Dahiru and Umar Amadu.

One of the victims who was released, Mummuni Musa, narrated that their kidnappers tied up each the different ...