The Police in Benin have confirmed that a woman has been rescued from the 32 people who were abducted by armed herdsmen at Igueben on Sunday.
The woman was said to be rescued by security operatives involved in an ongoing bush combing operation in the area.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Edo State Police Command, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the rescue did not give further details.
He neither gave the identity not how she was released from her captors.
He simply said that a woman has been rescued thereby bring the number of those rescued so far to seven.
“Yes, a woman has been rescued making it a total of seven persons that have been rescued so far, details later he said.
Suspected armed herdsmen had invaded the train station in Igueben, headquarters of Igueben Local Government Area of Edo State on Saturday and kidnapped 32 passengers waiting to board train to Warri, Delta State.
A statement by Edo State Police Command Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, on Saturday night said the suspected herdsmen invaded the train station, shot sporadically into the air with AK-47 before kidnapping unspecified number of persons while some were left with bullet injuries.
The Network gathered that the train station manager, Godwin Okpe, the Head of Security, identified simply as Ikhayere, an Igueben community resident, Victor Osarobho and the station ticket clerk, also identified as Akhere are among those abducted.
On Monday, the Executive Director Esan Youth for Good Governance and Social Justice, Comrade Benson Odia, said that the abductors of 32 victims of Edo state train station attack have established contact with some families of the kidnap victims
He disclosed that the kidnappers have also demanded for N20 million for each victim.
