“Two persons were arrested because they went together to swim in that river when the ugly incident occurred.”
They were said to have opened fire on their victims and injuring them in the process.
The victim was returning from his father’s oil palm plantation when he was abducted alongside the commercial motorcyclist.
The abduction is coming on the heels of Saturday’s abduction of 32 passengers waiting to board a train at the Igueben station by suspected herdsmen.
Mr Nwabuzor said preliminary investigation revealed that the students were the prime suspects of unrest caused by some students at the all-girls school on Thursday.
Police command in Edo said it killed a suspected kidnapper on Monday in Benin in a gun duel along the Benin-Lagos Expressway by the Utekon community.
“The police uncovered the fact of the matter through the confession of one of the suspects, a staff of the Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs.”
