Benin City, Nigeria: In a swift and coordinated operation, security forces in Edo State have rescued 16 of the 29 passengers abducted during a violent highway ambush along the Benin-Auchi road.
CSP Moses Yamu, spokesperson of the command, confirmed this on Saturday in Benin while reacting to the incident.
Gunmen had allegedly attacked an 18-seater bus, which belonged to the New Edo Line Transport Company and two other vehicles, where the 29 passengers were forcefully taken away.
Sources said the gunmen ambushed the buses on the Sobe axis of the road and dragged the victims into the bush.
Shortly after the incident, the sources said a team of security operatives comprising police, army, local vigilantes, and hunters went for bush combing to rescue some of the victims.