Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have killed two suspects who kidnapped three Indian nationals on their way home.

In a press release on Tuesday, the command’s public relations officer, Omotola Odutola, said the remaining four kidnappers escaped while the operatives rescued the victims.

The police, in the statement, revealed that the manager of Breeze Company Nigeria Limited on the Ibadan-Lagos expressway informed the DPO of the Mowe Divisional Headquarters about the incident.

According to the state police spokesperson, the manager reported that on May 3, his principals, numbering about 16, were returning to their residence at Kajola junction when a gang of kidnappers opened gunfire on the two Toyota buses conveying them.

Ms Odutola said the police mobile escort attached to the first bus exchanged fire with the kidnappers, and three Indian nationals inside the second vehicle, which was without police escort, were all kidnapped to an unknown destination.

She said, “The anti-kidnapping section of the command, in concert with police formations in the axis, with other local security agents, swung into action by combing the area. 

“Policemen engaged the kidnappers in a fierce gun battle confronting the Kidnappers in the forest along Benin-Sagamu Papalanto at about 1630hrs on 7th May 2024, and succeeded in the rescue of the victims unhurt.”

Ms Odutola revealed that the police demobilised two of the six kidnappers and recovered “two AK 47 riffles, one single barrel locally made gun, one sword, cell phone and criminal charms and 65 rounds of ammunition.”

“The likely ransom loot of the two demobilised kidnappers of the sum of seven million nine hundred thousand naira and one thousand five hundred Rupees of (Indian Currency) were also recovered,” she added.

The police stated that both demobilised suspects have been deposited at the mortuary, while efforts are ongoing to arrest the four other fleeing members of the kidnap gang.