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317 Girls Kidnapped From Government College In Zamfara – Police
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More than 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in northwest Nigeria Joanna Taylor © Provided by The Independent
Gunmen have kidnapped 317 schoolgirls in the town of Jangebe in Zamfara, northwest Nigeria, police said.
Armed bandits fired sporadically during the late-night attack on the Government Girls Science Secondary School, according to Zamfara’s information commissioner Sulaiman Tanau Anka.
“Information available to me said they came with vehicles and moved the students, they also moved some on foot,” he added.
Zamfara Police are currently searching for the missing girls along with the military.
It is not immediately clear who was responsible for the kidnapping.
Militant Islamist group Boko Haram and a branch of Islamic State are active in northern Nigeria, but kidnapping by other armed groups – mostly for ransom – are increasingly common.
Seven out of the 317 female students abducted at the Jangebe Government Girls Secondary School in Zamfara State have escaped from their abductors.
A source who spoke with Channels Television from Jangebe town via a phone call on Friday evening confirmed that the girls returned home on their own as they claimed they manoeuvred their way back from the bandits while trekking along the forest.
According to the source, the escaped students said more had also escaped and are expected back soon.
The girls were abducted from their boarding school in the early hours of Friday.
In reaction to the development, the Zamfara Police Commissioner, CP Abutu Yar, had earlier said a joint search and rescue operation was already underway with a view to rescuing all 317 students.
Zamfara Police repels attack by bandits, recovers bomb, military uniforms, motorcycles Zamfara Police repels attack by bandits, recovers bomb, military uniforms, motorcycles
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The Zamfara State police command has repelled bandits attack, recovered 14 motorcycles, military uniforms and bomb along Tsafe-funtua road in the state.
Addressing newsmen, on Tuesday, at the police command headquarters in Gusau, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Abuto Yaro, said bandits have no place to stay in Zamfara.
“A distress call was received by the DPO Tsafe Division that, armed Bandits numbering about hundreds blocked Tsafe – Funtua Road with intend to rob innocent commuters.”
According to him, the DPO mobilised a combined team of Special Forces and Conventional Policemen to the scene and they engaged the bandits.
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