Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta
The Ogun State Police Command says its operatives on Tuesday stormed the hideout of suspected kidnappers in the forest of Fidiwo, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, and shot dead six of them during an exchange of gunfire.
Two operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad were also said to have sustained gunshot wounds in the bloody encounter.
The command said the slain suspects had been on the wanted list for almost a year as a result of their alleged nefarious activities along the ever busy expressway.
They were said to have even sacked a whole village in that axis, and turned it into their hideout.
From their hideout, they also allegedly moved to the highway to rob motorists and other travellers.
The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, who led journalists to the hideout,
said the suspects had earlier kidnapped two medical doctors at the…
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