Kidnappers Kill Two Policemen, Abduct Four Agip Staff In Delta

Unknown gunmen, Monday, killed two escort mobile policemen and adopted four other staff of Agip Oil Company in Okpai, Kwale in Delta State.

The gunmen, numbering about six, were reported to have accosted the coastal bus conveying the workers  back home from work at the Agip Okpai/Beneku field operated by Agip and Sterling at about 4 p.m. and short dead the two mobile  escort policemen before carefully selecting about four members of staff from the bus and taken to an unknown destination.

The identities of the two dead mobile policemen and the four abducted Agip staff could not be ascertained.

Though no contact had been made at press time, no ransom had also been demanded by the abductors.

Delta Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, ASP Famous Ajieh could not be reached for confirmation but security sources and staff confirmed the abduction of some of their colleagues.