Kidnappers hijack vehicle conveying corpse in Benue

Six persons travelling on Adoka-Otukpo Road successful Benue State person reportedly been abducted by gunmen who abandoned the corpse of a pistillate successful their vehicle.

The victims were said to beryllium travelling from Kano to Okpoga, successful the Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State, with the corpse of the woman, who was being taken location for burial.

The incidental reportedly occurred astatine astir 8:00 p.m. connected Friday, erstwhile the travellers were intercepted by the kidnappers astir Adoka Road.

The abductors allegedly whisked distant the six occupants, leaving the woman's corpse successful the vehicle.

An activistic and national journalist, Meddy Olotu, disclosed the incidental successful a video shared connected societal media, calling connected information agencies and different applicable authorities to urgently intervene.

Olotu said household members mislaid interaction with the travellers aft they arrived successful Adoka connected Friday night.

He added that operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, discovered the corpse the pursuing greeting and took it to the constabulary presumption successful Adoka, earlier it was deposite...