BREAKING: Bandits kidnap over 30 travellers in Rafi, Niger State

Over 30 passengers have been allegedly kidnapped by armed bandits at Garun-Gabas in Rafi Local Government Council of Niger State.

The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon along the Zungeru-Garin-Gabas highway on three separate vehicles.

The victims were traveling in an 18-seater bus and two other vehicles when they ran into the gunmen, the bandits blocked the road shooting sporadically into the air to scare villagers who scampered to various directions before whisking the passengers away to an unknown location..

A resident of the area who did not want the name mentioned, said after kidnapping the travellers the bandits in large numbers ran into the Kundu forest in Rafi to rustle cattles.