Two pupils have been abducted after some yet to be identified gunmen intercepted a vehicle conveying the pupils home after school hours around Ikpeshi community in Igarra-Auchi road, Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo State.
WITHIN NIGERIA gathered that the kidnapped victims were returning to Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo, after the close of school when they were kidnapped on Tuesday, November 2 around 5.35 p.m.
The spokesman of the State Police command, SP Kontongs Bello, who confirmed the incident, said that police operatives, soldiers, and vigilantes were combing bushes in an effort to rescue the pupils.
“Two students were kidnapped but efforts are on to rescue them unhurt. Men of the Nigeria Police, soldiers and vigilantes are already combing bushes to rescue the students” he said
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