Police in Benue State have arrested eight suspected kidnappers and recovered the bodies of four victims.
Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Catherine Anene, confirmed the arrest of the suspects in a statement today.
She explained that the suspects were part of a ten-man gang of kidnappers who escaped from the Sankara area of the state.
The command’s spokesperson said police detectives trailed the fleeing persons and arrested eight of them in Osun State, and brought them back to Benue for further investigation.
She noted that the suspects, on Monday, opted to lead police detectives to Tavachan forest in Mbamon in Kastina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue where they buried the victims.
Upon arriving at the scene, the Police Public Relations Officer disclosed that a deep well and a shallow grave were found in the forest with decomposed bodies of the victims.
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