Tag: Kidnapping
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PRESEC Legon student connive with friends, fakes kidnapping to take over GHC 340k from his parents
Ghana Police Service conducted an intelligence-led operation and investigation resulting in the arrest of six individuals, four of whom are juveniles and students of...
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Driver sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for attempted kidnapping
An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a driver, Godfred Ayittey, to eight years imprisonment with hard labor for attempting to kidnap a father and...
News
5 suspected kidnappers nabbed over abduction of 4-year-old girl
Authorities have apprehended five individuals suspected of kidnapping a four-year-old girl in Fumso, located in the Ashanti Region.The arrested individuals reportedly hail from Wassa...
Independent Africa
9 dead in Guinea prison break as ex-military leader temporarily escapes
In a recent jailbreak in Guinea's capital, Conakry, gunmen took former military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara and three others.Authorities confirmed at least nine...
Independent Africa
58 kidnapped victims rescued in Nigeria
The Nigerian police say they have freed 58 persons who had been kidnapped and held prisoner in Kogi state's central region by criminal groups.How...
Independent Africa
ECOWAS demands release of Nigerian abducted children
The kidnapping of 80 persons last week in northern Nigeria has been denounced by Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).In Zamfara state, many...
Independent Africa
Police in search of abducted female students in Nigeria
A search and rescue effort has been started by police in northwest Nigeria to find two female students who have been kidnapped from a...
World
Americans abducted in Mexico, two dead, two survives
Mexican and US officials, have indicated that two of the four Americans who were abducted in Mexico last week at gunpoint are dead, while...
Independent Africa
Two Red Cross workers kidnapped in Mali
In Mali, two International Committee of the Red Cross employees have been abducted.According to the organization, the kidnappings happened on a road connecting the...
World
Kidnapped 5-month-old twin boys reunited, suspect charged
Twin boys who were kidnapped earlier this week in Columbus, Ohio have been reunited and the suspect has been taken into custody.CNN reports that...
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