Security operatives have rescued two members of staff of the United States Consulate in Nigeria, who were kidnapped during the attack on their convoy at Ogbaru Local Government Area in Anambra States on Tuesday.
The state police spokesman, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a press release to journalists in Awka, on Friday.
The identities of the rescued victims were yet to be diclosed.
But, Ikenga said they were rescued unhurt by the joint security forces in the early hours of Friday.
It would be recalled that gunmen ambushed the convoy of the consulate officials on Tuesday, killed seven including police personnel, and abducted two.
The bodies of those killed were also set ablaze by the gunmen along Atani-Osamala road in Anambra.
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