Gunmen have kidnapped some students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Talata Mafara local government area of Zamfara State.
Daily Trust gathered that the incident happened in the early hours of Friday.
A resident of Kawaye village identified as Sadi Kawaye told Daily Trust that his daughters, Mansura and Sakina, were among those abducted.
“I’m on my way to Jangebe now over this terrible situation. I was told they invaded the school around 1am,” he told our reporter over the phone.
When contacted, SP Muhammad Shehu, Police Public Relations Officer in Zamfara, said he could not react.
“Give me some time, I can’t say anything now,” he said.
News of the latest abduction comes less than two weeks after armed men broke into Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State.
The attackers had raided staff quarters and hostels, where they picked their victims and took them into the forest.
Although President Muhammadu Buhari ordered security agencies to ensure their immediate release, the victims are still in captivity.
In an audio that went viral on social media, a man who spoke on behalf of the captors of Kagara victims, threatened that they might starve to death.
This is the first time in Nigeria that gunmen will stage large-scale abduction of students from different schools in less than two weeks.
The first major attack on a school by an armed gang happened in Borno State, where over 270 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, were abducted on April 14, 2014.
Four years later, gunmen hit Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi Yobe State, and abducted 119 students.
In December 2020, over 300 male students were abducted at Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State.
