The children regained their freedom following the arrest of the gang leader and his collaborator by the operatives of Ebonyi state Command of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad.
The two children, Chinwe Igwe and Ibiam Igwe aged nine and five years respectively, regained their freedom on Sunday.
According to an Eyewitness, Mr Lawrence Mbachima, the children were loitering on Amasiri Amangwu Road when a commercial motorcyclist spotted them and alerted the community.
He explained that the development was coming after the community mobilized and conducted a search in a thick forest between Amasiri and Amangwu communities.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Loveth Odah confirmed the development but pointed out that the children were freed after men of Anti-Kidnapping squad put one of the kidnappers holding the two children in the forest under pressure.
Mrs Odah said efforts were on to arrest a fleeing member of the gang pointing out that the Commissioner for Police in the State, Mr Titus Lamorde had directed that the two children be rushed to Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki as they look sick and traumatized.
It was gathered that the grandfather of the children aged one hundred and four years who suffered serious machete cuts when the kidnappers came to abduct their victims had died.
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