Gunmen on Wednesday attacked the Chairman of Correspondents’ chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Nasarawa state, Suleiman Abubakar and abducted his wife, Yahanasu Abubakar.
Suleiman told journalists that the incident happened at about 7 p.m. along Gudi-Garaku road
According to him, the gunmen shot at the union bus they were travelling in from Keffi, where his wife went to register at the National Youth Service Corps orientation camp.
He said the bus ran into a ditch after being shot at while the gunmen swooped on them, took his wife, the wife of a former state assembly member, who they gave a lift as well as two other women from another vehicle during the attack.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP Samaila Usman, said the command has mobilised officers to the area to search and rescue the abducted women.
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