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Hundreds of students disappeared in western Nigeria after himCIt was launched by gunmen against his school, which the government designated for high school students.
According to eyewitnesses, the gunmen arrived on motorcycles and began firing into the air, forcing those present to flee alive.
The school specialized in scientific studies and taught about 800 students from the western state of Katsina.
Although 200 students have been found, government forces continue to search for the rest, with the support of aircraft.
Residents living near the school told the BBC they heard gunshots around 11pm on Friday night and that it lasted for about an hour.
Local officials confirmed that the school guards had managed to push back some of the attackers after an exchange of gunfire before police arrived.
A government statement said that an exchange of gunfire with school guards forced some of the attackers to retreat and retreat so that some students could safely scale the school’s fence and flee.
However, some witnesses confirmed that they saw the gunmen take some students away.
A policeman was taken to hospital for treatment for his gunshot wounds.
Some residents joined the search for the missing students, while several parents confirmed that they had removed their children from school.
A witness said: “Some students returned to the city in the morning and others took the bus to go home.”
This comes just two days after the kidnapping of a village head and twenty of its inhabitants in the same wilaya, which is the birthplace of the country’s president, Muhammad Bukhari.
In 2014, the armed Islamist group Boko Haram abducted more than 270 girls from a school in the northeastern Nigerian city of Chibok.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack on the school in Katsina, which is far from Boko Haram’s normal area of operations in the northeast.
