GUNMEN,
yesterday, ambushed a team of policemen escorting two kidnap suspects, earlier
arrested, to court for arraignment, leading to fierce gun battle, during which
the suspects were killed.
Delta
State Police Command’s spokesperson, Mrs. Celestina Kalu, who made the
disclosure
, yesterday, said following the bloody encounter, the two kidnap
suspects being conveyed to the court lost their lives in the process while the
police vehicle was badly damaged.
According
to her, “a team of operatives from Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad Asaba,
conveying two male suspects, one Ogaga Enueme ‘m’ and Efe Edheki ‘m’, to a
Magistrate Court in Oleh for arraignment in connection with the offences of
conspiracy and kidnapping, ran into an ambush by gunmen at Oloh Ogwashi on
Kwale Road, and at the end of the ensuing gun battle, the police vehicle was
shattered while the two suspects were hit by bullets from the hoodlums.
“They
were quickly rushed to the hospital for treatment, but they later gave up the
ghost. The deceased suspects had on January 5, at 1240hrs kidnapped one Mrs.
Vivian Obonyano ‘f’, aged 55, on her way from church on Asaba-Ase Road, Uzere
town.”
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