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A combined team of security agents are on the trail of bandits that abducted 39 students at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Thursday night.
Army Spokesman, Brigadier-General Mohammed Yerima, confirmed that a team comprising men of the Army, Air Force, Police and DSS were combing the forest in and around Igabi, in pursuit of the bandits.
The bandits in large numbers had attacked the institution about 11:30 pm and kidnapped several students and staff.
They broke into the institution by breaching a perimeter fence and encroached about 600 metres to attack the first facility.
A combined team of security operatives made up of the Army, Air Force, Police and Department of State Services, DSS are combing the bushes in search of 30 students still missing after armed bandits attacked Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka in Igabi local government area of Kaduna State late Thursday evening.
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Troops of the Nigerian Army have rescued 172 students and eight others kidnapped by bandits in the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Mr Samuel Aruwan, the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, confirmed the rescue in a statement on Friday.
Aruwan said that bandits, in large number attacked the institution at about 11.30 pm on Thursday, kidnapping several students and staff.
The commissioner said, 180 rescued, several students missing following attack at Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Igabi LGA.
Aruwan said troops rescued the students in the early hours of Friday, adding that the bandits broke into the institution by breaching a perimeter fence.
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