Police gun down suspected kidnappers, rescue hostage
Police operatives have shot dead a member of a kidnap gang and rescued their victim in Warri, Delta State. The state police spokesman, Bright Edafe, who disclosed this, said the kidnap hostage was rescued by the police from the booth of his Lexus car, adding that before freedom came his way, he had transfered N700,000 from his phone to his abductors. The police image maker said the hostage was ordered into the booth of his vehicle by his kidnappers after they brandished a local gun at him on Jakpa Road, where they hit his vehicle from the rear with their Keke and he came down to look at the damage on his car. The kidnappers, who took over his Lexus car, ran into a police checkpoint and one of them armed with the local gun, who tried to escape was shot dead by men of the police. “Police patrol team attached to Ebrumede Police station while on stop and search duty flagged down a Lexuz Saloon car but the occupant on noticing the police, jumped down from the vehicle with a...