Image for illustration purposes only, depicting gunmen.The Guardian learnt that a commercial bus driver identified as Emeka, popularly called Car Wash, who plies the route was said to be returning from Owerri to Port Harcourt with 18 passengers, and his conductor when they were ambushed at gunpoint by the hoodlums on Wednesday night.
He added that the kidnappers abandoned the driver in the pool of his blood as they diverted the passengers onboard into a nearby forest. He said: “There is this 18-seater bus coming from Owerri and getting to Omerelu, the pipeline area, some men suspected to be kidnappers came out from the nearby bush and shot the driver in his leg, leaving him unconscious while they took other passengers into the bush. The armed men left the bus and took 18 passengers, including the bus conductor and left the driver because he could not walk.
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