Segun Ayinde, Abeokuta
Police in Ogun State have killed two suspected kidnappers in a gun battle while attempting to rescue three Indian nationals in a forest located along the Benin-Sagamu Expressway corridor of the state.
The suspects numbering six were said to have abducted the nationals inside a bus without escort as they were returning back to their residence at Kajola Junction.
On hearing the incident, the manager of Breeze Company Nigeria Limited – where the nationals work, made a distress call to the DPO of Mowe Divisional headquarters that a gang of kidnappers attacked and opened gunfire on the two buses conveying his principals and abducted three out of the sixteen of them.
The three abducted Indian nationals – Tejaram Chauhan, Kaduwal Pradhan, and Medani Kathiwada were all inside the second Toyota Hiace bus with registration number: SMK 986, with no police escort and were all whisked away to an unknown destination.
Upon the information the Anti-Kidnapping joined forces with other policemen as well as local security outfit and embarked on a rescue mission where they engaged the kidnappers in a shoot out at a forest along Benin-Sagamu Papalanto killing two of the six gangs as the rest fled for their lives.
Exhibits recovered include two AK 47 rifles, one single barrel locally made gun, one sword, cell phone and criminal charms and 65 rounds of ammunition.
The sum of seven million, nine hundred thousand naira (#7.900.000), as well as one thousand five hundred Rupees of (Indian currency) were also recovered.