Nigerian Police Arrest Suspected Killers Of British Hostage

Operatives of the inspector general of police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested two militants suspected to be involved in the kidnap and killing of British hostages.

Recall, the deceased identified as Ian Squire and other British missionaries providing free healthcare to Niger Delta people were kidnapped

Sergent Sanusi Lanre and Sergent Agunbiade Adebayo, two IRT members, sustained bullet wounds during the exchange of gunfire that took place in an apartment at Sapele area of Delta state, Vanguard reports..

It was reported that two members of the group were trailed by the IRT operatives to Warri area of Delta state, where they were eventually arrested.

The two suspects confessed to being members of the Karowei militant group and volunteered to take police officer to their hideouts.

However, the militants sighted the IRT operatives first and one of them opened fire. He was however killed and his weapon recovered.

The operatives who sustained injures were rushed to Delta State University Teaching Hospital, (DESUTH) Oghara, Delta state, where Sgt Sanusi Lanre underwent surgery.