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Unidentified gunmen person reportedly kidnapped astatine slightest 14 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, candidates successful Benue State.
The candidates were reportedly abducted during an onslaught connected a commercialized autobus travelling from Makurdi to Otukpo successful the state.
According to reports, the victims, mostly young adults, were travelling to Otukpo, wherever they were scheduled to beryllium for their examinations connected Thursday.
Chairman of Otukpo Local Government Area, Maxwell Ogiri, who confirmed the incidental to journalists successful Makurdi, said the victims were heading to the municipality for their examinations erstwhile the attackers struck.
“The victims are young radical coming to Otukpo to constitute JAMB. Security agents person been deployed and efforts are ongoing to rescue them,” Ogiri said.
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