Four Army Officers killed On Rescue Mission

Four Army officers feared killed yesterday on Benin Auchi Road in an attempt to rescue wife of a colleague from the hands of kidnappers..

According to the report, wife of an Army officer along with some other persons were kidnapped along the Benin Auchi road and the kidnappers demanded the sum of #10M from one of the victims who happens to be a Christian brother.
On their way to pay over a million naira that they were able to raise, it was learnt that Army were already in the forest to rescue the wife of the top Army officer prompting the guy with the Ramson for one of the victims to hold back.

The kidnappers who became aware of this development were said to have engaged in gun battle with the Army, leading to the death of four military men, while the soldiers killed a member of the gang and arrested one of them.

Last night, the Army reenforced and went back to search the forest and rescue the victims.

At the time of this report it was not clear whether the rescue mission was successful.

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