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Thirteen students of the Naval School of Engineering, Sapele, Delta State, who were kidnapped on Monday at Iruekpen, along the Benin Ekpoma Road, Edo State, by gunmen, have been rescued by men of the Edo State Police Command.The students were said to be travelling in two commercial vehicles from Kaduna to Sapele when the gunmen intercepted their vehicle at Iruekpen, a community close to the university town of Ekpoma.
Officers and men of the Edo State Police Command, who were alerted, were said to have swung into action immediately and rescued some of the victims. Confirming the incident on Wednesday, the Edo Police Public Relations Officer, Kontongs Bello, said contrary to the information on social media that seven naval officers were kidnapped, students of the Naval College of Engineering, Sapele, were the victims of the attack.
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