Two passengers are missing after gunmen blocked the road linking Bokkos and Barkin Ladi, officials reported. The attackers halted traffic on the route and abducted the two travellers, in an incident described as a kidnapping.
The event occurred within Barkin Ladi Local Government Area, in Plateau State. The assailants are identified in reports as suspected kidnappers who used a road blockade to carry out the abduction.
Local users of the Bokkos‑to‑Barkin Ladi route now face an immediate security incident on a route that serves daily travel between those towns. The removal of two passengers during a deliberate blockade marks a confirmed case of violent criminal activity on that stretch of roadway.
Details remain limited to the basic facts of the abduction, the location and the characterization of the perpetrators. The sequence reported shows a blockade preceded the seizure of the two passengers, placing the incident squarely on the Bokkos-Barkin Ladi road corridor within Barkin Ladi LGA.
The recorded facts underscore a short, focused attack that ended with two people taken from a vehicle or vehicles stopped on the road. At this stage, available information is confined to the number of victims, the method used by the assailants and the locality where the incident occurred.
For residents and travellers the immediate reality is that two people were removed from the route between Bokkos and Barkin Ladi. The situation currently stands as an active security incident tied to that specific road and locality in Plateau State.
