The FCT Police Command on Monday rescued four kidnapped victims from a notorious kidnappers\u2019 den located at Sauni Hills, Lambata, along the boundary between FCT and Niger State.
\nThe command\u2019s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Anjuguri Manzah, in a statement said the victims were rescued following a special operation launched by the command.
\nHe said the victims were rescued after police operatives had dislodged the criminals from their hideout located in a remote mountainous area.
\nManzah said the operation was sequel to a distress call received at Gwagwalada Police Division that two persons, a male and a female were kidnapped from their home by some heavily armed persons on Feb. 8.
\n\u201cFollowing the distress call, police operatives from Gwagwalada Division launched a major onslaught.
\n\u201cThe operation forced the heavily armed kidnappers, who engaged the police rescue team in fierce exchange of gunfire, to abandon their victims at the mountainous terrain used as their hideout before escaping,\u201d he said.
\nHe said two of the rescued victims, Alhaji Umaru Salihu and Mariam Umaru were kidnapped from their home in Pagada village on Feb. 8.
\nManzah said the two other victims Zilkifilu Usman and Usman Shuaibu told the police that they were kidnapped from Niger state on Feb. 2 while on transit.
\nHe commended the vigilantes operating along the axis, who in the spirit of community policing, supported the police during the operation.
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The FCT Police Command on Monday rescued four kidnapped victims from a notorious kidnappers\u2019 den located at Sauni Hills, Lambata, along the boundary between FCT and Niger State. The command\u2019s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Anjuguri Manzah, in a statement said the victims were rescued following a special operation launched by the command. He said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[913,839,982],"class_list":["post-24411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-abuja","tag-kidnap","tag-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}