Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Wednesday attacked travelers on the Abuja-Keffi Expressway, carting away mobile phones and money from their victims.
The robbery took place at about 10am on the Expressway close to a village called Barde, after Gidan Waya in Kaduna State, a few kilometres from Jos, Plateau state capital.
The robbers numbering about ten, with five of them wielding dangerous weapons, including guns and machetes, came from the bush, stopped vehicles and ordered passengers to lie facedown.
A Punch correspondent, who was in a vehicle a few distance away, saw market women and others frisked at gunpoint.
The incident reportedly took place between two police checkpoints.
The robbers fled into the bush after 30 minutes of successful operation, when they sighted some soldiers from Keffi in Nasarawa state.
Some of the victims claimed the robbers were Fulani judging by the language they spoke.
A woman on a business trip to Jos for her boss wept uncontrollably, having lost a huge amount of money.
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