Update: Police rescues abducted Indian businessman

The Ashanti regional Police command has rescued the Indian businessman abducted on Thursday in Kumasi.

The rescue was undertaken at Paakoso, a community in the Ashanti region.

The Indian was abducted at gunpoint in Kumasi in the Ashanti region on Thursday 25th April 2019.

Esay Umpakan Chodri was forcibly taken and pushed inside a vehicle around Ahwodwo, a suburb of Kumasi by three man.

Speaking to the media, Tamil Kumar who is brother to the victim, said, he believes, the gunman mistook his brother as a gold dealer.

“I stay in Ahudwo junction, and I went somewhere yesterday and I just come this evening around 5 o’clock. When I came, my brother was not around and I asked my house girl where he was, and she said he went to buy something. Around 5:30 to 6 o’clock somebody called me, and said my brother has been kidnapped. I asked how and he said somebody knocked his car and said the tyre was flat so he should come out of the car to check. When he came out, there were three people who put a gun near his body and slapped him and him in their car, leaving my car my brother was using alongside his phone.

“My brother had two phones, and one was with him. Later, someone who saw the incident informed some Lebanese nationals nearby who in turn called the police.  And they located my brother’s phone around area because nobody called him. He is using two phone, one phone is with him already and one phone was left in the car,” he recounted to Ultimate FM’s Isaac Bediako Justice.

Ultimate FM’s source within  the police said the kidnappers were cooperating with the police on phone but suddenly switched off their phones.

The development comes in the wake of kidnappings in the country.

Three girls who were kidnapped in August 2018 in Takoradi are still yet to be rescued weeks after the CID director said the police knows where they are.

Two weeks ago, the police on a tip-off rescued the Lebanese Consular general who was abducted while on a walk at Labone and kept at a house in Lashibi by his Nigerian captors.

Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM

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