Police arrest seven suspected kidnappers in Edo

The Police Command in Edo State on Friday arrested seven suspected kidnappers around the Ekiadolor and Egor axis of Benin, the state capital.

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, disclosed this in a statement in Benin.

According to him, operatives of the command’s Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber Crime Unit arrested the suspects through credible intelligence.

He said the suspects, who operated in an Audi 80 car, had earlier snatched a little girl of about five years from her father and zoomed off before they were arrested.

Nwabuzor, however, said that the victim had been rescued and reunited with her parents.

The PPRO said, “The suspects made statements and confessed to being kidnappers.

“Items recovered from the suspects include: two locally made cut-to-size gun, one single barrel gun, 10 live cartridges, one ash colour Audi 80 car and one motorcycle.”

He said they would be prosecuted as soon as investigation was completed.

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