Armed robbers attack VP Sambo wife’s car, kill 2

Armed robbers attacked commuters along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway Friday, killing two and injuring several others, witnesses said. The raid resulted in multiple crashes involving at least six cars, including one belonging to a nongovernmental organization owned the wife of Vice President Namadi Sambo. The black vehicle belonging to Amina Sambo’s I-Care Women and Children Initiative was completely burnt and could not be salvaged by sympathizers who stopped to help put off the fire, a witness said. John Oguche, a driver of one of the vehicles attacked by the robbers, told journalists in Kaduna that the accident occurred around 4p.m. near Doka Hospital along the inter-city road, “They blocked the road near Doka hospital and made unsuspecting vehicles to ram into one another,” he said.