Kaduna: Gunmen has kidnapped 140 students from a dormitory school in Northwestern Nigeria, said a school official on Monday, the latest in a wave of mass kidnapping targeting school children and students.
Heavy armed criminal gangs often attacked the village to loot, steal livestock and kidnap ransom in Northwest and Central Nigeria, but since the beginning they have targeted schools and colleges.
Happy! You have managed to throw your votelogin to see the results of the attacker scales the fence to enter Bethel Baptist High School in the country of Kaduna in early Monday, taking most of the fertilizer there last night.
“The kidnappers took 140 students, only 25 students fled.
We still do not know where the students were taken,” Emmanuel Paul, a teacher at the school told AFP.
Kaduna National Police spokesman Mohammed Jalige confirmed the Monday morning attack, but he could not give details about the number of students taken.
“Tactical police team chased the kidnappers,” he said.
“We are still in the rescue mission.”
About 1,000 students and students have been kidnapped in different Nigerian countries since December last year.
Most have been released after negotiations with local officials, although some are still detained.
Bethel Baptist High School was a co-reasonable college founded by the Baptist Church in 1991 in Maramara Village in Chikun Regency outside the capital city of Kaduna.
Monday’s attack was the kidnapping of the fourth mass school in the state of Kaduna since December.
The Governor of the State of Kaduna Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has become one of the most vocal local leaders who insisted he would refuse to pay ransom.
The school kidnapping Monday only hours after the gunman also grabbed eight medical employees from the Kaduna Health Center, according to the police.
President Muhammadu Buhari, the first former general chosen in 2015, has promised to end the specter of kidnapping and criminal gangs, but mass kidnapping was only a challenge facing his government.
Nigerian security forces have fought against the Jihadist uprising to the northeast since 2009, the conflict that has killed around 40,000 people and is displaced by more than 2 million more.
Criminal gang, which is known locally as a bandit, operates from camps in the inaugural forest, which cuts in the state of Zamfara, Katsina, and Kaduna in Nigeria, and Niger.
Most of the gangs were motivated by material profits, although some have sworn to the Jihadist organization in northeast Nigeria, hundreds of kilometers away.
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Armed men kidnap 140 school students in Northwest Nigeria
