Gunmen have killed two aides and kidnapped their boss, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, in Port Harcourt.
The kidnappers also shot three of the police escorts attached to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN.
Nigeriacrime.com gathered that the three policemen who sustained various degrees of injuries in the attack have been hospitalised.
The kidnappers came in military camouflage and carried out the act around 3 pm, on Monday.
The abductors had trailed the SAN and his escorts from a distant place, but they launched their attack around Obiri-Ikwerre interchange in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Rivers State.
A source, privy to the development disclosed that a personal aide and driver to the SAN were shot and killed in the incident and that the policemen escorting them only sustained injuries.
It said the kidnappers had shot at the tyre of the police van carrying the policemen and the driver of the van had lost control.
The source said the car summersault after the driver lost control of the steering following the sudden deflation of the car tyre.
It said: “This afternoon, kidnappers kidnapped a senior lawyer around Obiri-Ikwerre interchange. The criminal shot at a police van escorting the SAN.
“They killed the driver of the lawyer and another of his aide. They kidnapped the man and ran off. Three policemen that were with them in another van had accident because the criminals shot their tyre before going for their target.”
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the state Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko a Superintendent of Police, confirmed the kidnap.
She noted that no policemen died in the incident however, the hoodlums killed aides to the kidnap victim.
Iringe-Koko said the police escort sustained injuries and that they have been hospitalised.
She said the Commissioner of Police in the state has made adequate police mobilisation to ensure the unconditional release of the kidnap victim.