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Three suspected kidnappers shot dead in Kogi

Three suspected kidnappers have been shot dead during a shooting encounter with a combined team of soldiers, policemen and local hunter in Kogi State.

The kidnappers, who were masked, were said to have, on the said day, kidnapped Chief Ganiyu Popoola, the Elemoh Aran of Omu-Aran, his brother, Dr Sule Popoola, their nephew, a woman and her husband, said to be a medical doctor, and an unidentified victim. According to him they trekked for hours before finding their way out of the forest and came out at a spot at Egbeda-Egga community.

Popoola said that the soldiers, numbering about five, the two policemen and the head of local hunters in Egbeda-Egga, led them back to the kidnappers’ hideouts.

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