Fifty children were rescued from an underground apartment in a church in Ondo, Ond state.
According to reports, the children were kidnapped and held in underground cells.
Police detectives in town have arrested the pastor of the church and other accomplices.
A viral video trending on social media showed the abducted children.
They were spotted in a police patrol vehicle on their way to the police station.
In the video, a voice can be heard saying, “There are kidnapped children found in the underground cell of a church in Valentino Area of Ondo.”
The pastor and some church members were arrested and were also in the police patrol van.”
Funmi Odunlami, a spokesman for the state police command, confirmed the discovery by police detectives.
Odunlam stated that the victims had been taken to the Command’s Akure headquarters.
