According to the report, the gunmen, numbering about 10 and dressed in black attire, stormed the central market in the town around 9pm and started shooting sporadically.
The hoodlums were said to have taken the advantage of activities at Ejiba village market and its environs where transactions are mostly carried out into the late hours on its market days."They came in two groups and surrounded the place, five stationed at the main road, while four others positioned themselves at the back of Bukky's container in the market.
The eyewitness added that Bukky's mother, Madam Sesan, who also ran to hide inside a container sustained machete injury on her leg. One of the victims was said to have died in the hands of his abductors, while the the only survivor is said to be receiving treatment as a result of the encounter.