Edo State Commissioner of Police (CP), Monday Agbonika, has confirmed the rescue of the 13 passengers kidnapped by gunmen.
The passengers were whisked away by armed men around Ekhiadolor on the Benin-Ore Expressway on Saturday afternoon after gunmen attacked the bus in which they were travelling.
The kidnappers had shot the bus driver and abandoned him beside the bus before marching the victims into surrounding bushes.
Agbonikan confirmed a manhunt was on for the kidnappers with special squads, drones, and other equipment deployed in the bushes.
The police boss also confirmed the injured driver was responding to treatment at a hospital in Benin.
Giving a further update on Tuesday, Agbonikan said the kidnapped victims had been rescued, adding that search was still on for the suspects.
“We have rescued all the victims. All of them have been rescued. We have been on this since the day the incident occurred. We deployed drones and other gadgets in the bush to help in the search,” he said.
A report by THE NATION newspaper said that social media activist, Martins Vincent Otse alias VeryDarkMan (VDM) made a video when his vehicle arrived at the scene where the incident took place.
In the video, the wounded driver who laid by the side of his bus with his clothes soaked in blood was lifted from the ground into the trunk of a Hilux and rushed to the hospital.
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