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No fewer seven persons were, on Monday evening, kidnapped along Ilesa- Akure express road by armed suspected Fulani herdsmen.
The herdsmen said to have abducted travellers who were mainly officials of road transport workers but whose identities are yet to be identified as at the time of filing in this report.
The kidnapped people who said to be in a 16- seaters bus before being abducted by their abductors around 9.30 pm of the day in Iwaraja town of Oriade Local Government Area of Osun State, said to have been marched to a nearby forest in the area where the incident happened.
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No fewer than two travellers were reportedly kidnapped on Sunday night along Imo-Erin-Ijesha Road of Oriade Local Government Area of Osun State by suspected armed Fulani herdsmen.
The state police command told newsmen that only two persons were abducted by the gunmen, but informed sources insisted that no fewer than eight persons were kidnapped.
Informed sources further hinted that the abducted ones were waylaid around 7.00 pm that day by the armed Fulani herdsmen who were said to have first given the victims a serious beating before dragging them into a nearby forest.
Meanwhile, the state commandant of Amotekun, Brigadier Adewinbi Basiru (Rtd) confirmed the abduction of some persons but said he could not ascertain the actual figure as at the time of filing in this report.