The Edo state police command has killed a suspected Kidnapper along Benin-Auchi Expressway.
A statement on Sunday by the Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Jennifer Iwegbu, revealed that the suspect was killed on Saturday during a routine patrol.
He added that a corpse suspected to be one of the hoodlums was also retrieved in the bush.
The statement read, “As a fallout of the recent strategic engagement of stakeholders in Edo State security by the Acting Governor, Rt. Hon. Philip Shaibu, and the command CP, Abutu Yaro, a kidnapper was decimated at Iyuku Road by Imeke Junction, Benin-Auchi Expressway, on 09/07/2022 around 7.20pm while operatives of the command were on a routine patrol; others were wounded and took to flight.
“Subsequently, during bush combing along that axis, a corpse on black mask suspected to be one of the hoodlums was discovered. A locally-made pistol was discovered on him”, the statement added.
