Fifteen kids had been kidnapped from a college in Nigeria, virtually two days after round 300 college students had been taken hostage.
Gunmen invaded the Gidan Bakuso village in Sokoto state at about 1am (12am UK time) on Saturday, police spokesman Ahmad Rufa’i stated.
The gang seized the kids from their hostel earlier than safety forces might arrive, and in addition kidnapped one lady from the village.
Mr Rufa’i stated {that a} police tactical squad was deployed to seek for the scholars, however added that inaccessible roads within the space have hindered the rescue mission.
“It is a remote village (and) vehicles cannot go there,” he stated. “They (the police squad) had to use motorcycles to the village.”
School proprietor Liman Abubakar Bakuso instructed Reuters that the gunmen sporadically fired pictures whereas within the village and that college students ran for canopy in panic.
“They succeeded in abducting 15 of my students, the oldest being 20 and 15, but all the others are below 13,” he stated.
“We are in a state of panic and have been praying hard for their safe release.”
It is the third mass abduction within the West African nation in lower than per week, after no less than 287 college pupils had been taken by gunmen attacking a college.
Locals instructed reporters that gunmen surrounded the varsity in Kuriga city round 8am native time on Thursday, simply as courses had been about to begin.
“We will ensure that every child will come back,” Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna state, instructed villagers on Thursday. “We are working with the security agencies.”
On 6 March, a bunch suspected to be Islamist insurgents kidnapped 50 folks, largely girls, within the distant Gamboru space – on the border with Chad and Cameroon.
No group claimed accountability for any of the abductions.
On Saturday, Nigeria’s vice chairman Kashim Shettima met with some dad and mom of the kidnapped Kuriga college students, and guaranteed them of efforts to seek out and rescue the kids.
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The newest kidnapping additionally comes a decade after members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 feminine college students in a night-time assault.
According to Amnesty International, greater than 90 of the kidnapped college students are nonetheless lacking after being taken from a authorities secondary college within the Borno state city of Chibokare.
Some 1,500 college students have been kidnapped in raids since 2014. In latest years, the abductions have been concentrated in northwestern and central areas, the place dozens of armed teams usually goal villagers and travellers for big ransoms.
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