Reports emerging from Rivers State suggest that there was tension in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, November 1, after a group of kidnappers allegedly clashed with some police officers at Tank Junction, Rumuokwurusi.
According to Naij.com, the kidnappers intercepted a police convoy escorting some foreigners in the area.
Sources who were in the area said the security operatives and the kidnappers engaged in a gun battle killing one police officer.
“They exchanged gun fire and in the process a policeman was killed, three white men were kidnapped, a little child and his father who sell recharge cards and phone accessories were killed right in their shop by stray bullet,” the source said.