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Six persons are allegedly feared missing when unknown gunmen attacked six Hummer buses carrying INEC officials in Kogi in the early hours of Sunday.<\/div>\n
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\nThe incident, which occurred around 2 a.m of March 19 at Abajana, left several officials with gun shot wounds including policemen and drivers.<\/p>\n

The six missing persons include two serving NYSC corps members and four ex-corpers.<\/p>\n

The injured persons are already on admission at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), now Federal University Teaching Hospital, Lokoja.<\/p>\n

Salisu Ibrahim, one of the bus drivers, who was shot on his right leg, and recuperating at the hospital, told NAN that the attackers took them by surprise.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were on our way back to Lokoja from Abujor RAC with the results of the House of Assembly election held there, when we were attacked by some people.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the six buses moving in a convoy were attacked and in the process many of us sustained injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank God, none of us died in the process but I learnt some corpers are missing during the attack on us this early morning,\u201d Ibrahim narrated.<\/p>\n

Dare Owofadaju, a youth corps member who was shot on his left thigh, said: \u201cIt is only God that kept us alive considering the way and manner the gunmen attacked us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Owofadaju said that the election was conducted peacefully and counting was completed, and \u201cit was when we were returning to Lokoja that we were attacked at Abajana\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank God some security operatives came to our rescue and rushed those of us injured to this Federal University Teaching Hospital Lokoja for immediate treatment,\u201d he narrated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Our reporter also gathered that the Commander, Headquarters Command Army Records (CAR), Maj-Gen. Sunday Igbinomwanhia, Kogi INEC REC, Dr Hale Longpet, and the Kogi NYSC Coordinator, Mofoluwaso Williams, have visited the injured in the hospital.<\/p>\n

The spokesman for Kogi Police Command, SP Williams Ovye-Aya, confirmed the incident, saying that the police were on top of the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware of the sad incident and preparing to issue a statement on the attack,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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