Nigeria, April 17 -- A family member has cried out after two teenage brothers were identified among passengers abducted by gunmen along the Makurdi-Otukpo road in Benue State.

The incident, which occurred on Wednesday evening, involved a Benue Links bus conveying passengers, many of them candidates of the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

A user on X, identified as RaeSzn, said the victims include her two younger brothers who were travelling to Otukpo to sit for the examination.

"Nigeria has happened to me. They just kidnapped my two younger brothers on their way to Otukpo to write JAMB. They are just teenagers," she wrote.

She said calls to their phones were not responded to, until a police officer later answered. ...