{"id":160554,"date":"2025-04-27T22:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-neutralise-5-kidnappers-recover-3-ak-47-in-delta"},"modified":"2025-04-28T19:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T18:04:32","slug":"police-neutralise-5-kidnappers-recover-3-ak-47-in-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-neutralise-5-kidnappers-recover-3-ak-47-in-delta","title":{"rendered":"Police neutralise 5 kidnappers, recover 3 AK-47 in Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Delta State Police Command has announced the killing of five daredevil kidnappers who had been terrorising parts of Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>The specific areas affected include Ubuluku, Issele-Uku, Issele-Azagba, and the environs of the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>The command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, disclosed that operatives of the CP Special Assignment Team, SAT, acting on intelligence concerning kidnapping activities in the aforementioned areas by one Bello Abubakar and his gang, stormed one of their hideouts in the Agu-Amawbia forest in Anambra State on 21st April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that during the raid on the hideout, operatives recovered one AK-47 rifle and 132 rounds of live ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigations led the team to another hideout located in a forest between Issele-Azagba and Utulu, where Bello Abubakar and his gang members were lying in ambush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspected kidnappers attacked the policemen in a fierce gun battle, but the team, anticipating the confrontation, returned fire in like manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the suspects could not withstand the operatives\u2019 superior firepower, they fled in different directions with various degrees of bullet injuries,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Edafe disclosed that five of the suspects, including Bello Abubakar, who could not escape due to the severity of their injuries, were taken to hospital, where they were confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p>He further revealed that two additional AK-47 rifles and 18 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition were recovered from the forest.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that a manhunt for the other fleeing suspects is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Delta State Police Command has announced the killing of five daredevil kidnappers who had been terrorising parts of Delta State. The specific areas affected include Ubuluku, Issele-Uku, Issele-Azagba, and the environs of the state capital. The command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, disclosed that operatives of the CP Special Assignment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":160553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[449,254,165],"class_list":["post-160554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-delta","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police neutralise 5 kidnappers, recover 3 AK-47 in Delta - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Delta State Police Command has announced the killing of five daredevil kidnappers who had been terrorising parts of ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-neutralise-5-kidnappers-recover-3-ak-47-in-delta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police neutralise 5 kidnappers, recover 3 AK-47 in Delta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Delta State Police Command has announced the killing of five daredevil kidnappers who had been terrorising parts of ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-neutralise-5-kidnappers-recover-3-ak-47-in-delta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-27T21:18:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-28T18:04:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1745779892.793511.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1268\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-neutralise-5-kidnappers-recover-3-ak-47-in-delta#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-neutralise-5-kidnappers-recover-3-ak-47-in-delta\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police neutralise 5 kidnappers, recover 3 AK-47 in Delta\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-27T21:18:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-28T18:04:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-neutralise-5-kidnappers-recover-3-ak-47-in-delta\"},\"wordCount\":257,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-neutralise-5-kidnappers-recover-3-ak-47-in-delta#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1745779892.793511.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Delta\",\"Nigeria\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-neutralise-5-kidnappers-recover-3-ak-47-in-delta#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-neutralise-5-kidnappers-recover-3-ak-47-in-delta\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-neutralise-5-kidnappers-recover-3-ak-47-in-delta\",\"name\":\"Police neutralise 5 kidnappers, recover 3 AK-47 in Delta - 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