Thursday 23 February 2017

Police launch manhunt for kidnappers of German archeologists

The Nigeria Police has launched a manhunt for the kidnappers of Johannes Behringer and Professor Peter Breunig, the two German archeologists who were  abducted by gunmen on 22 December 2016 at Janjala area of Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna state.

At the time of their abduction, the Germans were working in collaboration with National Commission for Museums and Monuments on the relics of NOK Culture in Nigeria at an excavation site at Janjala.

The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris said that a team of Special Police Forces comprising the Intelligence Response Team, IRT, the Technical Intelligence Unit, TIU, the Anti Kidnapping Unit, the Counter Terrorism Unit, CTU, the Police Mobile Force, Police Surveillance Helicopters and Special Investigation Team are presently working to rescue the Germans and apprehend their abductors.

“The team is already on the ground working in synergy with the Kaduna State Police Command and the local indigenes of towns and surrounding villages where these German Archaeologists were kidnapped”, said the police.

“Though the two (2) Germans archaeologists have Police officers attached to them for their protection at the NOK Archaeology Research Project Centre they did not go with the Policemen to the excavation site where they were kidnapped.

“Two (2) locals in the company of the Germans archaeologists were killed during the kidnap attack.

“The Special Forces and Police Investigators deployed are in contact with the colleagues of the victims and have provided additional security for their safety.

”In order to achieve prompt result, the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department has also been mandated to coordinate the investigation aspect of the operations.

“The Nigeria Police Force while assuring all Nigerians and foreign Nationals in the country of their safety, the Force wishes to implore them to always request and obtain Police escort to protect them any time they are embarking on research, mining and related endeavours outside the towns and cities across the country," he said.

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