SUSPECTED kidnappers have reportedly escaped with bullet injuries, just as they abandoned their vehicle and fled into a nearby bush in Asaba, Delta State.
The incident occurred at Oko Market Road, Asaba.
Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe confirmed in a statement yesterday that the Command’s Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber Crime Squad, led by CSP Labe Joseph recovered from the suspects “abandoned operational vehicle, one AK-47 rifle with a defaced breach number, two pump action guns, one magazine, eight (8) rounds of AR live ammunition and twenty-one (21) rounds of live cartridges concealed under the suspects’ engine compartment.”
The Police image maker said, “On 27/11/2024 at about 2145hrs, acting on a distress call from the command’s control room over a kidnap incident along DLA road in Asaba where four armed hoodlums operating in a Toyota Camry 2.4 Model Reg. No. Enugu BLF 490 AA, kidnapped one male and a female victim (names withheld) and a Toyota Camry vehicle belonging to a woman was also taken by the hoodlums.
“The Commissioner of Police, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda upon receipt of this information directed the command’s Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber Crime Squad to ensure that the hoodlums are arrested and victims rescued.
“The commander CSP Labe Joseph led operatives from the unit and embarked on an intelligence-led operation, trailed the suspected kidnappers to Ezenei by Asaba/Benin Expressway.
Edafe said CP Olufemi Abaniwonda had assured residents that the command would go all out to ensure that the fleeing suspects were arrested and brought to book.
