Two staff members of the US Consulate in Nigeria were abducted on Tuesday during an attack on their convoy in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra States. Security personnel have now freed them.

DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, the state police’s press secretary, informed the media in Awka of this on Friday.

The victims who had been saved had not yet been identified.

Ikenga claimed that the joint security forces were able to rescue them safely in the early hours of Friday.

He stated, “In the early hours of Friday, May 19, 2023, the joint security forces rescued unhurt the two remaining victims abducted during the attack on a US convoy along Atani/Osamela road in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra