Nigeria, March 29 -- Senators from the 19 states of the North have condemned the gruesome murder of at least 16 travellers in Edo State, south-south Nigeria.

The Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum (NSF), Abdulaziz Yar'Adua, in a statement on Friday night, described the killings as a clear violation of the fundamental human rights of the victims.

The victims, reportedly hunters, were travelling from Rivers State to Kano ahead of the Sallah celebrations when they were ambushed in the Uromi area of Edo State.

Reports indicate that members of a local vigilante group, alongside some armed youth, stopped the bus conveying the travellers, dragged them out the vehicle, subjected them to physical assault, and subsequently set them ablaze a...