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Gunmen have attacked travellers at a location between Ikere-Ekiti and Iju, a boundary town in Ondo state, killing one person while the whereabouts of other passengers remain unknown.

Sunday Abutu, spokesman of the Police Command in Ekiti, who confirmed the incident said the incident 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 Ilupeju-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,” he said.

“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.”

In December, the Ekiti state chapter of the Western Nigeria Security Network, Amotekun, rescued a traveller on the Isan-Iludun-Ekiti highway in Oye LGA of Ekiti from being abducted by gunmen.