Nigeria, June 3 -- The police in Edo State have arrested a suspected member of a kidnapping syndicate and recovered the body of one of three women abducted from their residence in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of the state.

The police disclosed this in a tweet posted on Wednesday.

According to the statement signed by the police spokesperson Eno Ikoedem, the victims, Mrs Favour Nosakhare, 66, Mrs Annabel Osasere, 28, and Miss Rejoice Otikpere, 26 were abducted by armed kidnappers who invaded their residence in Iyowa Community on 9 May and took them into a nearby forest.

The police said the kidnappers later contacted the victims' relatives through a video call during which the women were seen being tortured.

The police said oper...