Gunmen have kidnapped a secondary school principal, Joshua Adeyemi, alongside his deputy and three other persons along the Auga/Ise-Akoko Road in Akoko North-East Local Government Area of Ondo the state.

Adeyemi, the Principal of Auga Community Grammar School, was abducted together with his vice, Ifedayo Yesufu, and three other teachers in the school at gunpoint.

An eyewitness account said that the incident occurred on Thursday afternoon while they were travelling in a blue Toyota Corolla car belonging to the school Principal along the Auga-Ise Road .

One of the victims,Mrs Blessing Okeke, was released after the captors discovered that she was pregnant.

It was Okeke that alerted the families of the victims who then reported the incident to the police.

The Divisional Police Officer for Ikare Division, Oladutoye Akinwan, said detectives had been deployed to comb the forest in a bid to secure the release of the victims.