Bandits abduct people conveying corpse to Abia

Bandits, Wednesday, intercepted a hearse conveying corpse to Isuikwuato Community in Abia State.

The incident, according to a family source, took place around Umunneochi/ Ihube Okigwe axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway.

A family member told Vanguard that the victims were coming from Abraka in Delta State when the incident occurred.

According to the source, armed bandits waylaid the vehicle conveying the corpse and dragged out the occupants, abandoning the coffin in the vehicle on the road.

The source who said the deceased was his uncle’s wife, said the abductors whisked the victims including the deceased woman’s daughter, another relation and the driver of the hearse into the bush.

He said that the woman’s daughter later escaped from the captors by providence while the driver and the other man are still being held captive. Vanguard