Anambra Joint Security team has rescued kidnapped victim at Ihiala.

The Joint Security team comprising the Police, Military and Ihiala Vigilante while on patrol, intercepted a black shuttle with registration number RSH 255MS that drove  in a suspicious manner.

In a press release signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Tochukwu Ikenga revealed that in an attempt to stop the vehicle, the armed occupants opened fire on the Joint Security team who demobilized one of the armed assailants while four others abandoned the shuttle bus and escaped with various degrees of bullet wounds and on searching the vehicle, the operatives found a blindfolded victim, suspected to have been kidnapped.

The release said the victim was successfully rescued, given first aid and debriefed by the Police Operatives even as the vehicle was recovered.

In the light of this development, the Anambra Police Command urges all proprietors of private and public hospitals to admit, but report any individual presented with bullet wounds or injuries of a suspicious nature to the nearest Police Station.