Kidnappers kill 2 Mobile Policemen, abduct four Agip Staff

On Monday, unknown gunmen killed two escort mobile policemen and abducted 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. They shot dead the two mobile escort policemen before carefully selecting about four members of staff from the bus, then taking them to an unknown destination. The identities of the two dead mobile policemen and the four abducted Agip staff could not be ascertained. 

No contact had been made at press time and no ransom 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.