The Delta Police Command on Thursday raided the hideout of a gang of kidnappers in Okpanam community, Asaba and freed an eight-year-old girl and arrested two suspects.
One of the suspects was shot in the right leg while trying to flee following police presence, a police source said.
The kidnappers had on Thursday last week, abducted the eight-year-old daughter of a Chief Accountant, Delta State Ministry of Lands, Survey and Urban Development, Mr. Charles Isiaye.
Isiaye was Chief Accountant at the Government House, until he was transferred to the ministry.
Miss Itare Isiaye was reportedly whisked away in a car with an unidentified plate number at about 4.30pm while she was returning from school last week Thursday.
The girl was said to be in company with a driver who had gone to pick her from school when the incident occurred.
It was also gathered that the abductors had established contact with the father and demanded a N150m ransom.
However, luck ran out on the kidnappers when a tip-off from an undisclosed source led the police to their hideout.
Delta State Police spokesperson, Charles Muka, who confirmed the arrest of two persons, said that details of the suspects would be made public as soon as investigations were concluded.
In another development, suspected cultists on Thursday killed two students of the University, of Benin and the Ambrose Alli University in Ekosodin, a village inhabited by students of the University of Benin.
Our correspondent learnt that the deceased were a 100-level student of Computer Science of UNIBEN, identified as Pamela Ndi, and one Odion, a student of AAU, who was seeking admission into UNIBEN.
According to a source who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the lady was killed by a five-man gang of suspected cultists who chased her in a Mercedes Benz 190 to the residence of the late Odion where the two of them were attacked and killed.
According to the source, while the lady was shot several times on the head, Odion was reported to have been axed to death.
Speaking on the issue on the telephone, the Public Relations Officer, UNIBEN, Mr. Eddy Akpomera, who confirmed the killings, said that the incident occured outside the university.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Edo State Police Command, Mr. Peter Ogboi, said that policemen from the State Criminal Investigation Department were investigating the death of the two students.
Meanwhile, the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria on Thursday deplored the invasion, on February 16, 2009 by heavily armed policemen numbering over 20, of the premises of the Abuja High Court sitting in Gudu District, Abuja, where they abducted Mr. Oni Adeyemi, a witness in the murder trial of the Vice- Chairman of the Kwali Area Council and his special assistant.