Panic As Gunmen Kill Policeman, Kidnap 4 Chinese Railway Workers In Ogun

 

A policeman has been shot dead by some kidnappers who abducted four Chinese railway workers in Ogun state on Wednesday.

 

According to DAILY POST, the Chinese company is handling the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge railway project.

 

It was gathered that the kidnappers were dressed in black caftan and about eight in number.

 

The corpse of the policeman killed had been evacuated by a team of policemen and men of the Federal Road Sector Commission (FRSC).

 

Baale of Alaagba village, a sleepy town between Oyo -Ogun border, Chief Adekunle Olabamiji, confirmed the abduction of the four people.

 

He said that fierce looking gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen had laid ambush in the surrounding forest for the expatriates.

 

He said it was shocking to witness such a gory scene, even when the railway workers were always guarded by policemen and soldiers.

 

A youth leader at Alaaga village, Mr. Azeez Adila narrated how members of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) gave the kidnappers a hot chase into the forest, searching the entire bush path in an attempt to apprehend the kidnappers and rescue their victims.

 

He said despite the efforts by the village youths, who mobilised OPC members into the forest, the kidnappers could not be traced as they disappeared with the Chinese expatriates.