On Friday night, a gang kidnapped students in Nigeria in the northwestern state of Katsina, Kankara District. The gang was equipped with AK 47s when they invaded a Government Science Secondary School. During their raid, they kidnapped over 850 students. A parent and school worker said that approximately half of the students in the school were kidnapped.
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, announced on Saturday that they traded firearms with the armed gang forces to liberate the captured high school students. He also denounced the attack in the country in a comment stating that the army had identified the kidnappers in the forest and exchanged fire with the help of their air forces. The security forces collaborated to find out how many students the gang had kidnapped and how many were missing. On Friday night, the Nigerian police traded bullets with the perpetrators on the scene.
Gambo Isah, a Police Speaker, said in the declaration that some students ran for safety during the fire exchange. The police said they’d send more search and rescue forces. In the gun battle with the gang, one officer was shot and was critically wounded.
Kidnapped Students in Nigeria Set Nation In Panic
The state of Katsina is violently afflicted. These bandits – a free-term for bands of outlaws that kidnap residents for ransom – might demand something from the Nigerian government before the release of these students. In the northeast regions of the nation, assaults by Islamist militants are also widespread.
Terrorism and instability have angered people throughout Nigeria, especially after many farmers were murdered by Islamists in the northeast Borno State late last month. Buhari, who landed in his home village about 125 miles from Kankara on Friday, was expected to brief the regional parliament about defense last week, but he canceled without an explicit explanation.
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