Nigeria, Aug. 17 -- The police have rescued two kidnap victims following a gun battle with bandits in Ribah District in the Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State.

The command spokesperson, Nafi'u Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement released in Birnin Kebbi on Saturday.

Mr Abubakar said the operation took place on 15 August, when a team of police officers, vigilantes and local hunters clashed with the bandits near Dankade village for several hours.

Two men, identified as 26-year-old Tukur Bello from Augie LGA in Kebbi and 25-year-old Isyaka Abubakar from Gummi LGA in neighbouring Zamfara State, were freed during the fight. They had been abducted six days earlier while grazing cattle in Gairi forest, Zamfara.

The police ...