EDO STATE POLICE RESCUED 13 MONTHS OLD BABY, KILLED FIVE KIDNAP SUSPECTS, RECOVERED DOUBLE-BARREL GUN, A CUTLASS AND BATTLE AXE
The police in Edo State have killed three suspected kidnappers in a shootout, and rescued a 13-month-old baby, deputy police spokesperson Jennifer Iwegbu said yesterday in Benin.
She said: “Distress was raised by distraught residents of Achigbor on Benin-Auchi Road in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State, at 1930hrs on September 13, 2022. Police operatives on pin-down, along the axis, immediately mobilised and moved to the scene, where they came to an empty compound that had been vandalised and Elizabeth Ojo, 42, was screaming that her baby was taken away.
Ojo said some hoodlums, suspected to be kidnappers, vandalised her property and whisked her baby of one year and a month away into the bush.
The operatives immediately moved into the bush. The kidnappers, on sighting the operatives, threw the baby into the bush, and opened fire on them. In the firefight with the police operatives, three of the six kidnappers succumbed to our superior firepower. The others are still on the run, while further bush combing of the general area is still ongoing.”
Iwegbu also revealed that the baby was rescued unhurt and handed over to the mother, while one cut-to-size double-barrel gun, a cutlass and battle axe were recovered at the scene.
