The police in Edo State on Monday engaged kidnappers in a gun battle, killing three of them and rescuing seven victims, an official has said.
Kontongs Bello, the Edo police spokesperson, said this in a statement on Monday.
He said the police worked with a local vigilante team to achieve the feat.
He said the security team encountered the suspected kidnappers at the Ahor axis of the Benin-Lagos bypass and engaged them in a fierce gun battle, where three of the suspected kidnappers were killed.
He did not say if the police sustained any casualty in the…
