The Edo State Police Command has arrested two students of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Henry Onoriode Edewo (21) and Emmanuel Isiekhuieme, for the alleged kidnap, rape and murder of Miss Mercy Peters (21).

The late Mercy was a student of Auchi Polytechnic and was in the same department with the suspects.

She became missing on July 29.

It was gathered that the late Mercy was abducted by the suspects and taken to a forest at Ugbor in Oredo Local Government Area, where she was raped.

She was said to have been killed four days after the abduction.

The suspects allegedly buried her in a shallow grave in the forest and started demanding ransom from her family.

Police sources said the family paid some money to the kidnappers, but the hoodlums insisted on N1 million.

Police spokesman Anthony Airhuoyo said the suspects were arrested on October 17.

Airhuoyo said the suspects took the police to where they buried Mercy.

He said her remains had been exhumed for an autopsy.

A third suspect, simply identified as Charles, is still at large.

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