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Six die in Adamawa highway robbery
Six people have died following a highway robbery attack along the Ngurore-Yola road in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
Witnesses on Saturday said the robbers blocked the road and operated from 7pm to 9pm Friday night. They added that the bandits shot a commercial taxi driver named Ababakar Ibrahim, whose car consequently somersaulted into a ditch and resulted in the death of all the five passengers in the car.
The robbers had allegedly robbed many vehicles before they killed the more unfortunate driver and caused the fatal accident. Our correspondent gathered that angry residents and members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the area responded to the incident by barricading the busy highway which links the southern senatorial zone of the state with the capital, Yola.
An elder brother of the deceased driver, Aliyu Ibrahim, who confirmed the development, described the death of his brother and the other five people as a sad reminder of a common occurrence along the highway.
The Nation, Sunday, March 31
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