APA – Lagos (Nigeria) Two U.S. Mission employees missing since the May 16 attack in Anambra state in south-eastern Nigeria are alive and safe and under the protection of Nigerian authorities in Anambra State, according to the statement issued on Friday in Lagos.
The statement distributed by the APO Group on behalf of U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Nigeria, said: “We have informed their families of their safe recovery. U.S. Mission personnel are on their way to meet and accompany them home.
“We continue to work intensively with Nigerian security and law enforcement on this matter, to identify the victims previously found, and to bring to justice those responsible for this heinous attack. We welcome any information the public may have in this regard.
“We are deeply grateful for the partnership and solidarity of the Nigerian government and Nigerian security and law enforcement colleagues, and mourn with them for those who died in the attack.”
Meanwhile, the Police have announced confirmed that the two members of staff of the United States Consulate in Nigeria, who were kidnapped during the attack on their convoy at Ogbaru Local Government Area in Anambra State on Tuesday have been rescued by security operatives.
The state police spokesman, Tochukwu Ikenga, who stated this in a press release to journalists in Awka, on Friday, said that they were rescued unhurt by the joint security forces in the early hours of Friday.
“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 attack along Atani/Osamela road in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State.
“Operations are still ongoing and further details shall be communicated, please,” Ikenga added.
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