The victims were abducted while travelling from Gusau to Tsafe on Monday when bandits blocked the road and abducted commuters.
The Nigerian Police Force has said its operatives rescued 15 kidnapped victims including a six-month-old baby girl at Magazu forest in the state.
“The Commissioner of Police, CP Kolo Yusuf, congratulates the rescued victims for regaining their freedom, and assured for police of continuous commitment to protecting lives and property of the citizens,” Mohammed Shehu, the police public relations officer, told reporters on Thursday evening.
He added while speaking at the police command headquarters in Gusau that all the victims had been rescued unconditionally.
According to him, the victims were abducted while travelling from Gusau to Tsafe on Monday when bandits blocked the road and abducted commuters.
He stated that the rescue operation was carried out in response to an intelligence report on the victims' kidnapping.
He said, “In the course of debriefing, the victims informed the Police that they were abducted in by a large number of armed bandits who blocked Gusau to Tsafe to Magazu road and took them into the bush at Magazu forest in the state.
“The victim while at the Police Command Headquarters, Gusau was medically checked and later reunited with their family and relations.
“The Commissioner of Police, CP Kolo Yusuf, congratulates the rescued victims for regaining their freedom, and assured for police of continuous commitment to protecting lives and property of the citizens.”
In a similar development, the police also said they rescued six women and a one-year-old child abducted in the state in November 2022.
Muhammad Shehu, the state police spokesman, told newsmen that the victims were abducted at Kadamutsa village in Zurmi LGA of the state on November 24.
He said the police successfully rescued the victims on Zurmi-Jibia Highway with the help of an intelligence report acted upon and the assistance of a local vigilante group.