The Edo State Police Command had on Friday apprehended seven suspected abductors around the Ekiadolor and Egor axis of Benin, the state capital.

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, revealed this in a statement in Benin.

According to him, operatives of the command’s Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber Crime Unit apprehended the suspects through laudable intelligence.

He said the suspects, who operated in an Audi 80 car, had earlier snatched a little girl of about five years from her father and zoomed off before they were apprehended.

Nwabuzor thereby said that the victim had been saved and reunited with her parents.

The PPRO said, “The suspects made statements and confessed to being kidnappers.

“Items recovered from the suspects include: two locally made cut-to-size gun, one single barrel gun, 10 live cartridges, one ash colour Audi 80 car and one motorcycle.”

He dissolved that they would be charged as soon as probe was completed.