Hundreds of Nigerian students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state, police have confirmed.
The Government Science Secondary School in Kankara was attacked Friday night by a large group of bandits who shot “with AK 47 rifles,” Katsina State police spokesman Gambo Isah said in a statement.
Police engaged the attackers “in a gun duel which gave (some of) the students the opportunity to scale the fence of the school and run for safety,” Isah said.
About 400 students are missing, while 200 are accounted for, Isah said. The school is believed to have more than 600 students.
“The police, Nigerian Army, and Nigerian Air Force are working closely with the school authorities to ascertain the actual number of the missing and/or kidnapped students,” said Isah.
“Search parties are working with a view to find or rescue the missing students,” he said.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=AlArabiya_Eng&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-3&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1337875360571068421&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fenglish.alarabiya.net%2Fen%2FNews%2Fworld%2F2020%2F12%2F13%2FAround-400-Nigerian-students-missing-after-gun-attack-on-school&siteScreenName=AlArabiya_Eng&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px
A resident of the town, Mansur Bello, told The Associated Press that the attackers took some of the students away.
It is the latest attack on a school by gunmen in Nigeria.
The most serious incident occurred in April 2014, when members of the Jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from their school dormitory in Chibok, in northeastern Borno State. About 100 of the girls are still missing.
The latest attack is believed to have been carried out by one of several groups of bandits active in northwestern Nigeria. The groups are notorious for kidnapping people for ransom.
- Sudanese Delegation in Chad to Discuss Ties, Dispute with Ethiopia
Deputy Chairman of the Sovereign Council in Sudan Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, arrived in the Chadian capital Saturday with an accompanying delegationContinue Reading - Sudanese forces promote third party’s agenda: Chief of Staff
ADDIS ABABA-Some members of the Sudanese government forces are promoting a third party’s agenda through aggravating the ongoing Ethio-Sudan border skirmish, the Ethiopian National DefenseContinue Reading - The State of frenemy
Maintaining the status quo, playing the victim card: How border dispute defining Ethiopia, Sudan BY DESTA GEBREHIWOT In a move that is upping the anteContinue Reading - Israeli ‘sex tourism’ is the fruit of normalisation with the UAE
It is hard to believe the testimonies of Israeli tourists returning from the UAE, in which they describe Dubai as the Las Vegas of theContinue Reading
