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Credible sources said the two police inspectors were killed during a gun battle, while some AK47 rifles and a large quantity of ammunition were carted away.
Police officials called the masterminds of the latest attack in Anambra as “armed men”, but security experts closely monitoring recent happenings in the South fingered the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the militant arm of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
A source confided that the assailants had also freed all the suspected criminals locked in the cells at the police station before setting the facility on fire.
“There was a serious gunfight between the invaders and the police operatives at the station that lasted for several minutes…The two inspectors that died during the gun duel were targeted inside a non-functional filling station close to the police station.
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted four travellers in Olubo Village, along the Abeokuta-Imala-Ayetoro Road in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State.
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Residents of Ayetoro, Ilara and Abeokuta staged a protest on Wednesday against the abduction of a commercial driver and three of his passengers on the Abeokuta-Imala-Ilara-Ayetoro Road in the Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The victims were abducted by gunmen at Olubo village, the same spot where a doctor and a nurse were kidnapped last month.
The victims were abducted on Tuesday around 8pm, while they were returning from the Ilara Market in the Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of the state to Abeokuta.
It was gathered that the victims were travelling in a Toyota Avensis car with number plate FFF 654 TK.
Gunmen on Tuesday abducted four travellers in Olubo Village, along Abeokuta-Imala-Ayetoro Road in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The police Public Relations Officer, DSP, Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the incident on Wednesday.
The abducted travellers, three traders, and a driver were said to be returning from Ilara market in the Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of the state when they were abducted by the gunmen.
It was gathered that the gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles and machetes, abducted the driver and three women who were selected randomly among the passengers
An eyewitness added that the abductors spared a Fulani and two Hausa passengers among them.