No less than 30 passengers is said to have been abducted by armed bandits at Garun-Gabas in Rafi Local Government Council of Niger State.
The Legend learnt that the victims were abducted Wednesday afternoon along the Zungeru-Garin-Gabas highway on three separate vehicles.
The travelers were traveling in an 18-seater bus and two other vehicles when they ran into the gunmen.
Eyewitness narratives say the bandits blocked the road and shot sporadically into the air to scare villagers who scampered to various directions before taking the passengers away to an unknown location.
A resident of the area who did not want the name mentioned, stated that after kidnapping the travellers the bandits in large numbers ran into the Kundu forest in Rafi to rustle cattles.
The Niger police command is yet to issue a statement on the development.