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General News of Saturday, April 20, 2019
Source: mynewsgh.com
2019-04-20
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Ghanaian police are looking for three people who are Nigerians and residents of H / N / 11 / B, NTHC, Vivian Farms and Lashibi successions in Accra, who kidnapped the Lebanese General Counsel in Ghana.
The 61-year-old Lebanese consular general and head of the Estonian mission in Ghana, Hon Nabil Makram Basbous, was kidnapped Thursday as he was walking in the morning.
The rescued victim lives in Labone, near Wangara, and about 10 minutes after the start of the journey, a white private Hyundai Elantra car registered GE 8922 – 17 stopped in front of him.
According to him, one of the occupants came out, fired a gun at him and ordered him to get in the car or get shot at him if he resists, but for fear of his life, he has forced, entered and was taken away with the captors pointing a pistol and an ax at him.
He could not fight his way until they came to the scene. He was held in the room and held hostage against the payment of ransom before being released.
Fortunately for him, the SWAT unit of the Accra Regional Police Command learned that Nigerians residing at H / N / 11 / B, NTHC residences, at Vivian Farms and at Lashibi, were characters. suspects who stayed at home all day but only went out at night.
The police tracked the information and located the house. The police attempted to enter the house and encountered resistance from the occupants.
During the process, the three occupants climbed a fence wall at the back and escaped, but while the police were still on the scene, the kidnapped victim emerged from one of the rooms where he had been taken hostage and reported his ordeal.
The police discovered that the car used in the kidnapping was parked in the compound and that the search in the car had uncovered a brand new Retay pistol loaded with 5 ammunition cartridges of 7.65 mm and 2 axes.
A Honda motorcycle bearing registration number M-19-GR 507 was also found in the said house.
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