Two persons including an unidentified soldier reportedly lost their lives, while an army lieutenant sustained gunshot injury in a fatal rescue effort.
This resulted from an attempt to rescue a foreign national identified as Hassan Mills, who was abducted on Saturday close to his farm, Panorama Farms, at Oke Alaro area of Ibadan, Oyo State.
Confirming the incident, spokesperson for the Oyo State police command, Olugbenga Fadeyi, a Superintendent of Police, said a combined team of security operatives of “Operation Burst” drafted to the scene of crime found the two corpses on Sunday while combing the surrounding forest to rescue Mills.
He however assured that efforts have been intensified to rescue the captive from his abductors unhurt. Part of the statement reads: “Not too long, one army lieutenant sustained gunshot injury on his right lap and was immediately taken to the hospital, while an aide of Mills escaped during exchange of gunfire”.
While lamenting that the police were not notified of the movement of foreign nationals for professional advice and necessary action, Fadeyi said negotiations with captors are always concealed from the police.
