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Abductors kill woman, demands N100m to free husband

Kidnappers who seized Mr. Arimazoya Abona, in his 70s, at Ubuneke-Ivbiaro in Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State, after killing his wife, yesterday demanded N100 million ransom.

Witnesses told our reporter that after the wife was shot in the neck, neighbours and passersby scampered to safety, with the gunmen invading through a bush path on the Ivbiaro-Auchi-Ikpeshi forest.

The youth of Ubuneke-Ivbiaro mobilised and headed for the forest in trail of the kidnappers to rescue the victim, but without success.

It was gathered that men of the Nigeria Police at Afuze divisional headquarters, and some soldiers visited the scene, while the body of the woman was deposited in an undisclosed morgue in Edo.Edo Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Moses Yamu, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), could not be reached at press time.

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