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The vigilance of some police operatives attached to Orerokpe Division who were on visibility patrol duty along Warri/Sapele road by Okuvo and Egborede Communities has paid off as they have rescued three Kidnapped Victims who were been dragged into the bush on the 31st December, 2022.
The incident was said to have happened about 0120hours after the operatives suspected that the victims might have been kidnapped.
As a result, they trailed them into the bush. However, when the hoodlums realized that the policemen were closing in on them, they opened fire on the team, galvanising into the policemen equally responding hence they abandoned the victims and escaped.
The victims (names withheld) aged 40 years, 54 years and 49 years old respectively. They were rescued unhurt and have been reunited with their families while a manhunt for the fleeing suspects is ongoing.
In another development, on the 29th December, 2022, while Police operatives attached to ‘A’ division Warri were on “stop and search” duty at the front of Daudu police outpost, Kpesu community Warri, they sighted a tricycle driving against traffic.
In an attempt to stop them, the suspects dangerously maneuver the tricycle and escaped, but in the process, a black handbag fell from the tricycle.
Upon searching the bag, one locally made cut-to-size pistol was recovered. Efforts to arrest the fleeing suspects are ongoing according to DSP Edafe Bright in a Statement in Asaba, Delta State.
