Delta State Police Command has recovered 138 rounds of AK-47 live ammunition and magazines.
It was learnt that on Friday, at about 1630hrs while team Eagle-net special squad were on routine patrol/stop and search along Ughelli-Port Hacourt Road, intercepted a Mazda 626 saloon car dark green in colour with Reg. No. UGH 722 AA with six occupants of two males and four females all occupants were asked to come down from the vehicle for searching.
Edafe stated that on the process of searching a sack containing rice, a man whose name is not yet known among the occupants jumped into a nearby stream running while a hot chase ensued but all efforts to catch up with him proved abortive as he escaped into the forest.
The Acting Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP. Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a statement.
Edafe stated that the rice bag was identified by other passengers as his own, when search was conducted on the bag, one hundred and thirty-eight rounds of AK47 live ammunitions, one AK47 magazine, one Baretta pistol magazine and a knife is recovered preliminary investigation revealed that the occupants are all passengers that boarded the cab from Eleyele PHC heading to Ughelli.
The acting PPRO noted that investigation is ongoing while all effort is being put in place to arrest the fleeing suspect.