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UGHELLI —THE Delta State Police Command said its operatives have arrested nine suspects, including armed robbers, cultists and recovered arms and ammunition.

A hunter, popularly called Odonkoro from Ufa in Igarra the headquarters of Akoko-Edo Local Government area, has been reportedly shot dead by suspected kidnappers.

The deceased was killed while he and his colleagues and members of the local vigilante group were combing the forest around Igarra and neighbouring communities for kidnapers and to rescue their victims.

There has been a resurgence of kidnapping in the area with the recent kidnapping of five people within two days along Farm Road in Igarra and one of them was released after an undisclosed ransom was paid.

A member of the vigilante group who witnessed the killing while narrating the incident said it happened on Tuesday while the kidnappers were arrested on Wednesday.

The vigilante said, “We divided ourselves into two groups and went in different directions but unknown to us, the kidnappers had sighted us so while we were trying to take position, they shot and killed him.