Hundreds of pupils missing after gunmen burst into boarding school and kidnap terrified boys
Updated: 13 Dec 2020, 10:02
THE NIGERIAN military has located and exchanged gunfire with kidnappers who abducted hundreds of secondary school students from the Katsina state on Friday.
Bandits armed with AK-47s stormed the Government Science Secondary School in the Kankara district, in north-western Nigeria, at around 9:40pm, according to police.
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Over half of the students at the all boys boarding school are still missing Credit: Reuters
Locals say over half of the school s 800 students were still missing as terrified students hid in bushes and scaled the school fence in a bid to get away.