Tragedy as Gunmen Attack Ambulance, Kill Undertaker in Kogi
- The family of an undertaker, Segun Adekoya, has been thrown into mourning in Yagba East local government of Kogi state
- The undertaker was killed by unknown gunmen after attacking their ambulance along Egbe-Ogbe-Ponyan road
- A resident narrated how the tragic incident occurred over the weekend on Saturday, January 25, 2025
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Egbe, Kogi state - Gunmen killed an undertaker, Segun Adekoya, after attacking an ambulance along Egbe-Ogbe-Ponyan road in Yagba East local government of Kogi state.
The tragic incident occurred around 5pm on Saturday, January 25, 2025.
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As reported by Daily Trust, the gunmen attacked the ambulance while the group was returning to Egbe after officiating at a funeral ceremony in the Ponyan community.
A resident of Egbe, Ademola Ganiyu, said the deceased with his workers took a corpse from Egbe hospital to Ponyan on Saturday morning.
He said the team prosecuted the undertaking role successfully before the unfortunate incident.
Ganiyu explained that the undertaker group is greatly loved because of its quality service delivery at funeral or burial ceremony.
“Shortly after fixing a punctured tire on his way back, he ran into an ambush of the hoodlums, numbering about 30.
“While others escaped from the scene, he could not, as an accident that affected one of his legs years ago rendered it useless, making him always shuffle in walking.
“His life less body was picked up on Sunday morning beside the road, shortly after farmers spotted it and raised alarm,”
Some locals said the lingering residents-herders’ crisis was responsible for Adekoya’s death while some attributed it to the activities of kidnappers
It was gathered that kidnappers have been on the prowl in that axis for months.
The state Police public relations officer, SP Williams Aya, could not be reached to react to the tragic incident as of the time of fillig this report.
Legit.ng earlier reported that tragedy struck the Catholic Diocese of Nnewi in Anambra state following the killing of Reverend Father Tobias Chukwujekwu Okonkwo.
Reverend Father Tobias was shot dead by unknown gunmen along the Onitsha-Owerri Expressway on Thursday, December 26, 2024.
The Chancellor of the Nnewi Diocese, Rev Fr Raphael Ezeonu, described the tragic incident as a devastating loss.
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