Nigeria Police Rescue Abducted Italian Priest In Edo

Category: Crime News

The Edo State Police Command announced on Monday the rescue of Rev Fr Luigi Brena, 68, an Italian of Somascan Father’s Community who was kidnapped by hoodlums.

The Command’s deputy Public Relations Officer, ASP Jennifer Iwegbu, in a statement said “In our continuous efforts to curb crime and criminality in the state most especially kidnapping, the Edo state police Commissioner Cp Abutu Yaro, fdc has massively deployed police Operatives to most of the identified volatile areas in the state and the move has started yielding positive results.

“Consequent upon this, Operatives of the Edo state police command attached to Iguobazuwa Division on the 03/07/2022 at about 1745hrs received information that Rev.

Fr Luigi Brena ‘M’ 64yrs, an Italian of Somascan Father’s community was kidnapped by hoodlums suspected to be kidnappers, along Ogunwenyi through Usen community in Ovia South West Local government area of Edo State.

“On receipt of the information, the police Operatives immediately swung into action and trailed the suspected kidnappers to their camp.

“The suspects on sighting the operatives opened fire on them, the superior firepower of the police operatives neutralized 3 of the kidnappers while the rest escaped into the forest with various degrees of gunshot injuries abandoning their victim.

“The victim was immediately rushed to Igbinedion Teaching Hospital, Okada for medical attention. Meanwhile, intensive bush combing is ongoing with the aim of arresting the Suspected kidnappers now on the run”, the statement added.