Scores of travellers including a medical doctor and his son have reportedly been kidnapped in Otukpa, Benue State along the Enugu-Makurdi Federal road.
According to PressExpress, the travellers were kidnapped on Thursday evening despite several military and police checkpoints that dotted every 10 poles.
Otukpa is a boundary community with Amalla Egazi, in Enugu State, Nigeria. It contains the headquarters of the Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State.
Sources said on Saturday that the gunmen kidnapped all the occupants of about six vehicles that were en route to Enugu from Abuja and other parts of northern states.
However, the medical doctor with Niger State General Hospital, Dr Emma Okolo, his son, and a lady identified as Ego Okozo, from Umanaa Ndiagu in Ezeagu local government area of Enugu State were among the unlucky travellers that were kidnapped and matched into the bush on Thursday, sources claims.
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