Bandits have abducted a yet-to-be ascertained number of students following an attack on Kaya Junior Secondary School in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara state.
The incident occurred at about 11am on Wednesday in Maradun Local Government Area of the state as gunmen stormed the school on motorcycles, shooting sporadically.
According to ChannelsTV, sources explained that the assailants invaded the school in a large number and left with the students to an undisclosed location.
However, authorities in Zamfara and police have yet to confirm the attack.
Niger, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto and many other states in North-west and North-central Nigeria are bedevilled by bandits’ attacks.
The bandits kill and kidnap at will despite the large deployment of police officers and soldiers to the affected states.
The latest incident comes a few weeks after bandits abducted students and teachers of the College of Agriculture in Bakura Local Government Area of Zamfara state.
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In the early hour of July 5, over 100 students of Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state were abducted.
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In February 2021, gunmen struck the Government Secondary School in Kagara, Niger State, abducting school pupils, teachers, and workers.
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Also on December 11, 2020, 344 secondary schoolboys were abducted from Kankara in Katsina, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, while he was there.
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In February 2018, 110 schoolgirls were also abducted by Boko Haram from the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State.
Five died in the process while others were later released, except Leah Sharibu, a Christian girl who refused to renounce her faith.
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Hundreds of schoolgirls were also kidnapped in Chibok in 2014 by Boko Haram, some of whom have not been released till date.
