John Shiklam
About 152 pupils of Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi in Kaduna were still missing yesterday after bandits abducted about 180 of them in an early morning raid.
However, 28 of the abductees have returned after escaping from their abductors.
But the Kaduna State Police Command said it rescued 26 pupils.
The bandits said to be in larger numbers and armed with sophisticated weapons, reportedly invaded the school at about 2 am.
The Kaduna State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Joseph Hayab, in a telephone interview, said his son was among those who escaped from the bandits.
He stated that many of the pupils were still missing, adding that it is not possible to determine the number of those abducted until those who probably ran into hiding are back and a census is taken.