Amid worsening insecurity in the country, the police say 20 people have been kidnapped in three days in Edo.

The police stated this in a statement in Benin on Monday by Kontongs Bello, the command’s spokesman, revealing that the command rescued seven kidnap victims and killed three suspected kidnappers during an operation in the Ahor community.

Mr Bello disclosed that the tactical team of the command and the local vigilante carried out the operation in continuation of the forest and bush combing promised by Phillip Ogbadu, the Commissioner for Police in Edo.

He explained that with the seven rescued victims and the 13 rescued last Saturday, the total number of victims rescued between Saturday and Monday were now 20.

The police spokesman added that the combined team encountered the suspected kidnappers at the Ahor axis of the Benin-Lagos bypass and engaged them in a fierce gun battle, killing three of them.

Mr Bello reiterated that the police chief had promised to sustain the tempo and would not relent until he had flushed out kidnappers.

According to him, the police commissioner also sought the partnership of stakeholders through information sharing, particularly from those around the Ahor community and environs.

(NAN)