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Anxiety is growing among the parents of hundreds of students who remain missing three days after gunmen attacked their school in Katsina State in northern Nigeria.
More than 300 students are missing after the attack on the Government Science Secondary School, a boys’ school in Kankara, on Friday night, Katsina governor Aminu Masari said.
A joint rescue operation was launched on Saturday by Nigeria’s police, air force and army, according to the government.
The military was in gunfights with the bandits after locating their hideout in the Zango/Paula forest on Saturday, according to a statement by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Hundreds of Nigerian students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state.
The Government Science Secondary School in Kankara was attacked by a large group of bandits who shot “with AK47 rifles,” Katsina state police spokesman Gambo Isah said.
Police engaged the attackers “in a gun duel which gave (some of) the students the opportunity to scale the fence of the school and run for safety,” Mr Isah said.
About 400 students are missing, while 200 are accounted for. The school is believed to have more than 600 students.
“The police, Nigerian Army, and Nigerian Air Force are working closely with the school authorities to ascertain the actual number of the missing and/or kidnapped students,” said Mr Isah.
Insecurity: CSO condemns kidnap of Katsina students
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People gather inside the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. PHOTO: AP
By Gabriel Ewepu, Abuja
A Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Incentive-Based Programme, IPB, of Policy House International, Monday, condemned the kidnap of students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, by suspected bandits.
Expressing grief over the sad incident in a statement signed by the Executive Director, IBP, Taiwo Akerele, it described the kidnap as disgusting, reprehensible, insensitive, and inhuman as insecurity in the State has taken a new dimension.
The statement reads in part, “We are pained and distraught that while we are working hard to encourage parents to bring their children and wards back to school in the Nigeria North East especially on the backdrop of UNICEF’s estimated 10.5 million out of school children in Nigeria, (a figure we dispute), this happened again
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