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Again, gunmen have abducted Katsina students. About 80 students were affected in the kidnap on Saturday night at Mahuta community in the Dandume Local Government Area of the state.
The victims have, however, been rescued by police and vigilante groups, who gave the gang a hot chase that ended in the rescue of the students.
The new development came just as news filtered in that the Edo State Head of Service, Anthony Okungbowa, was kidnapped and his driver killed in Benin City, the state capital.
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The police in Katsina on Sunday confirmed the abduction of another set of 80 students from an Islamiya school in the state on Saturday night.
All the 80 students and another four victims have, however, been rescued by security operatives.
It was learnt that the 80 students were returning from an Islamic occasion when they ran into the bandits, who had earlier kidnapped the four victims and rustled some cows.
Following distress calls, security operatives moved in and tackled the bandits, leading to the rescue of the students and the four other victims.
According to the police, there was no casualty during the gun duel.
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Five soldiers were killed by Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, in an ambush on a military convoy in Borno State, weekend.
ISWAP split from the mainstream Boko Haram six years ago and rose to become a dominant group.
This came as no fewer than 35 people were kidnapped on Friday, also by ISWAP militants at a fake checkpoint in Garin Kuturu village outside Jakana, 25 kilometres from Maiduguri, Borno State.
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The Police and the military on Sunday narrated how 80 pupils of Hizburrahim Islamiyya School in Mahuta village of Dandume Local Government Area of Katsina State, who were abducted by bandits on Saturday, were rescued, saying they achieved the feat after a gunfight.
The Islamic pupils were said to have been abducted while returning from Maulud celebration at Alkasim village of the local government area on Saturday night.
The abduction came barely a week after another group of bandits kidnapped 344 pupils of Government Science Secondary School Kankara, Katsina State on a day President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in Daura, his hometown in the state, on a week-long private visit.