Uknown gunmen on Thursday hijacked a private school bus at Oba Ile Estate in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, abducting a member of staff of the school.
It was gathered that the incident occurred around 6:45am while the driver and the abducted staff of the school were moving round to pick the pupils.
An eyewitness account disclosed that the hijackers who were armed with guns, machetes and other dangerous weapons, rode on motorbikes and surrounded the vehicle with registration numberr Lagos LSD 853 FJ which forced the driver to stop.
The driver was dragged down from the bus while one of the gunmen jumped into the driver’s seat and they all zoomed off.
But it could not be ascertained if the attendant who was with the driver in the bus got down from the bus or was driven away with the bus as her whereabouts is not known.
The driver and the attendant had just set out to begin to pick pupils from their homes when the criminals struck.
Spokesman to the state Police Command, Tee-Leo Ìkorò, said he has not been briefed about the incident.
