In a separate tactical operation, police operatives also arrested a suspected cultist and recovered a locally fabricated Beretta pistol loaded with a live round of 9mm ammunition.

The victims, Rita Emma, 49, and her husband,  Obareki Emmanuel, 66, were reportedly kidnapped by gunmen in Iruekpen on September 4, 2026, and whisked into a forest.

Operatives of Agbor Police Division with forest guards and local security personnel in Delta State have successfully rescued a sixty-year-old man unharmed