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Police rescue female student from kidnappers in Osun State

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The Osun State Police Command, on Thursday, disclosed that it freed a 25-year-old female student of the Osun College of Health Technology, Ilesa, who was kidnapped on Tuesday.

In accordance with a statement by Superintendent of Police Yemisi Opalola, the Osun Police Representative, the victim, Rukayat Bayonle, was kidnapped on April, 20, at about 2.30 a.m., at Olomilagbala Area, Ilesa, Osun.

Superintendent of Police, Yemisi Opalola

The statement partly read, “Upon a distress call that the victim was abducted, the Osun Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, drafted a combined team of police Tactical Unit, JTF and other security outfits on a rescue mission of the abducted girl.

“The abductors numbering about five invaded the quarters of the student and took her to the bush.

“The security operatives, in an unrelenting rescue operation of the victim, followed suit in the bush to do a thorough combing.

“At about 5.25 a.m. of the same day, within the space of 3 hours, the Police and local security men rescued the kidnapped victim unhurt.

“The Commissioner of Police, hereby, urged members of the public to be vigilant, support, co-operate and collaborate with the Police in the fight against all forms of criminalities.”

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