Edo: Police rescue nine kidnap victims along Benin–Lagos corridor

Edo State Police Command has announced the rescue of 9 kidnap victims from 2 abstracted incidents on the Benin–Lagos corridor and adjacent wood areas.

The improvement was confirmed successful a connection issued connected Friday by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Eno Ikoedem.

According to the statement, the cognition followed a coordinated strategy involving tactical deployments, quality gathering, aerial surveillance and sustained bush-combing exercises directed by the Commissioner of Police, Monday Agbonika.

The Command stated that each victims abducted during the caller incidental on the Benin–Lagos Expressway were rescued alive.

It attributed the occurrence to the “immediate and monolithic deployment of tactical teams, quality assets, aerial surveillance, and different operational resources,” noting that persistent unit forced the kidnappers to wantonness the victims.

“The sustained rescue efforts, coordinated bush-combing operations, and strategical domination of the country exerted unit connected the kidnappers, yet starring to the harmless rescue of each victims. They person since received aesculapian valuation and treatment, and reunited with their families,” the connection added.

In a related development, the Command confirmed the rescue of 4 further victims who had earlier been abducted and held successful captivity wrong the Imiegba for...