The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Nnaghe Obono Itam, has ordered an immediate manhunt for those who abducted a man in Nnewi LGA on Monday.
It was gathered that gunmen on Monday around 2pm in a red Highlander, abducted a ma in Nnewi and that when they were trailed to Nnobi, they engaged security operatives in a gun battle.
The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, said that during the gun duel, one of the security operatives was fatally hit and two passersby injured.
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He said the police rushed the victims to the hospital but that regrettably, all three of them, including a 22-year-old woman, were confirmed dead by the doctors.
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