Panic as gunmen abduct passengers along Onitsha-Owerri road [VIDEO]

Panic has gripped residents, motorists and passengers pursuing an onslaught connected vehicles on the Onitsha-Owerri Road successful Imo State.

According to eyewitness accounts and videos circulating online, gunmen reportedly blocked the roadworthy and stopped respective vehicles, including 2 buses, earlier abducting passengers and taking them into adjacent areas.

The videos showed immoderate vehicles stranded connected the road, with debris reportedly utilized to artifact the way arsenic crowds gathered astir the scene.

An eyewitness who shared a station astir the incidental claimed that the attackers were equipped Fulani gunmen.

He said, “Today, 1st of October, equipped Fulani gunmen attacked, robbed and kidnapped passengers travelling from Lagos astatine the Owerri Road to Anambra Expressway. They besides abducted respective passengers wrong 2 afloat buses.”

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Panic arsenic gunmen abduct passengers on Onitsha-Owerri roadworthy [VIDEO]