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Delta Police Foil Kidnapping, Engage Suspects In Hot Chase, Recover Stolen Vehicles, AK-47 Rifle
Operatives of the Delta state Police Command, have foiled a kidnapping attempt by a four-man gang along DLA road, Asaba, the state capital.
The suspects who attempted to kidnap one male and a female victim (names withheld) were give a hot chase by the police but later abandoned their vehicle and the snatched car and escaped to a nearby bush.
The attempted kidnap incident happened on Wednesday November 27, 2024 along DLA road, Asaba, the state capital.
Police Public Relation Officer, SP Bright Edafe, who disclosed this, said that the suspects had attempted to abducted the victims before police swooped on them and gave them a hot chase.
He said that the four armed hoodlums were operating in a Toyota Camry 2.4 model reg. No. Enugu BLF 490 AA.
Edafe said that the suspects were busted following a distress call made to the command’s control room.
He said following the tip off, the commissioner of police, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda, directed the command’s Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber Crime Squad to ensure that the hoodlums are arrested and victims rescued.
Edafe said that 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.
The hoodlums, he said, upon sighting the police team closing in on them, zoomed off and diverted to Oko market road in a bid to escape.
He said the police “courageously chased after the hoodlums forcing the hoodlums to jump out of their vehicles, hurriedly took to their heels and fled into the nearby bush with bullet injuries, abandoning the cars”.
Edafe said that police later recovered one AK-47 rifle with a defaced breach number, two pump action guns, one magazine, eight rounds of AR live ammunition, and twenty-one rounds of live cartridges.
The suspects concealed the weapons under the engine compartment of their operational vehicle.
A Toyota Camry vehicle belonging to a woman which was also taken by the hoodlums, was recovered.
He said that efforts have been intensified to track the fleeing suspects and bring them to book.
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