The Anambra Situation Police Command stated it has begun the seek for kidnappers that kidnapped incorrect fewer than 3 individuals at other places within the condition and in addition to rescue the sufferers.
Deny fewer than 3 individuals had been feared to be abducted at other places within the condition on Saturday.
In accordance to a couple movies circulating on social media, one of the crucial abductions occured at Ifite-Amansea-Awka Highway in Awka North Native Executive Section on Saturday afternoon age the alternative one occured alongside the Agulu-Oraukwu Highway in Anaocha LG on Saturday night.
Within the video, two yet-to-be-identified occupants of a Sports activities Worth Car had been abducted via gunmen on Saturday afternoon on the Ifite-Amansea-Awka, near to the Nnamdi Azikiwe College’s 2nd gate.
Past one yet-to-be-identified individual used to be taken away via some other poised of gunmen alongside the Agulu-Oraukwu Highway.
The voices within the movies narrated that the assailants double-crossed the sufferers with their automobile, dragged them out into their ready automobile and zoomed off age leaving behind the sufferers’ cars.
The movies confirmed masked gunmen ordering the sufferers out in their cars and into their ready cars.
It used to be accumulated from assets within the gardens that the gunmen shot into the wind as they made away with the sufferers, age one in every of them additionally took the sufferers’ automotive.
Probably the most assets and a resident residing across the Ifite-Amansea-Awka Highway the place two sufferer had been putting off stated, “It was a scary scene to behold. The hooded gunmen double-crossed the occupants of an SUV vehicle, shot into the air and ordered them out and into their waiting vehicle, after which they immediately zoomed off. They left the SUV.”
Reacting to the advance in a commentary on Sunday, the Anambra Situation police spokesman, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, stated later finding out the movies, the police responding staff recovered sufferers’ cars and positioned joint security features/operational positioning to prevent such or matching incident within the Situation.
Ikenga stated manhaunt and rescue operations are nonetheless ongoing within the localities to rescue sufferers and arrest the assailants as directed via the Commissioner of Police in Anambra Situation, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam.
He stated, “Efforts are ongoing to arrest the assailants and rescue the sufferers of the kidnapping incidents on Saturday captured in a video alongside Ifite-Amansea street, Awka.
“In the meantime, the police responding staff recovered the lonely sufferer’s automobile, and joint security features/staff positioning are already in playground to prevent such/matching incident within the Situation.
“To this finish, the CP fees the command tactical groups deployed to counterpoint the joint safety staff to redouble their efforts to deprive the hoodlums of any area they need to perpetrate their unholy acts and vows that the police command shall let go incorrect stone unturned in removing the assailants
“Further development shall be communicated, please.”