Police rescue nine kidnap victims on Katsina, two still missing

Nine victims abducted by kidnappers on the Katsina-Kankara road person been rescued by operatives of the Katsina State Police Command, portion efforts are ongoing to find 2 others who stay missing.

Security operatives responded to a distress telephone and effected the rescue pursuing a kidnapping incidental that occurred connected Friday astatine Tashar Kanya Village successful Kankara Local Government Area of the state.

DSP Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu, the command’s spokesman, said successful a connection that the incidental occurred astatine astir 2:30 p.m. erstwhile equipped bandits blocked the Katsina–Kankara Road and intercepted a reddish commercialized Volkswagen Golf III saloon car with registration fig KMC 400 MK.

He said, “The vehicle, driven by a 40-year-old antheral identified arsenic Aliyu, popularly known arsenic Maitakabari, was conveying 11 passengers from Dandume to Katsina erstwhile the gunmen abducted each the occupants.”

Upon receiving the distress report, Aliyu said the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) successful Kankara instantly mobilised a squad of operatives, including unit from the Violent Crime Rescue Unit (VCRU), to the scene, wherever they reportedly engaged the bandits successful a fierce weapon duel, forcing them to wantonness the victims and fly into surrounding bush owed to the superior firepower and tactical manoeuvres of the constabulary team.

During a consequent hunt of the area, helium said operative...