Nigeria: Gunmen kidnap 140 school students in northwest Kaduna State
Nigeria: Gunmen kidnap 140 school students in northwest Kaduna State
Gunmen attacked a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Sunday night.
Some 140 students were kidnapped, presumably to exchange them for ransom, a member of the school said.
“Attackers took 140 students with them, 25 managed to escape,” details Emmanuel Paul, who teaches at the Bethel Secondary School boarding school.
Some 165 students were sleeping in the boarding school at the time of the attack.
“The gunmen climbed over the fence to enter the school,” he reported, stressing that “everything indicates that they arrived on foot.
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DAILY POST learnt that the troops also captured three bandits
This was contained in a statement, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner For Internal Security and Home Affairs issued on Saturday morning.
According to him, “Troops under the auspices of Operation Thunder Strike rescued two kidnapped women, close to Gadanin Gwari, Gwagwada District of Chikun local government area.”
“According to the operational feedback to the Kaduna State Government, the women were suddenly abducted as they made their way to their farm. The troops on patrol tracked down the criminals and engaged them in a firefight, forcing them to abandon their captives and run for their lives,” he said.