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Unknown gunmen have attacked travellers along Ikere Ekiti- Iju highway, a boundary town with Ondo State, killing one person while the whereabouts of other passengers remain unknown.
Spokesman of the Ekiti State Police Command, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident on Sunday evening, said that it occurred on Saturday evening.
He disclosed that the police has launched a “discreet investigation and serious manhunt” to unmask the gunmen.
Abutu said that the driver managed to escape with the vehicle and ran to Ikere Divisional Police Headquarters in Ekiti to report the incident.
“The driver accounted that he was brave enough to have speedily escaped with his passengers from the scene but in the process, one of the passengers was unfortunately hit by a bullet and was rushed to General Hospital, Ikere Ekiti where he later died.
“The Ekiti State Commissioner of Police implores everyone in the state not to panic as the Command shall join force with Ondo State Police Command to ensure that the perpetrators are made to face the full wrath of the law,” Abutu said
In December, the Ekiti State chapter of the Western Nigeria Security Network, codenames Amotekun, rescued a traveller on the Isan-Iludun Ekiti highway in Oye Local Government Area of the state from being abducted by gunmen.