A secondary school in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Katsina was attacked by bandits armed with rifles late Friday night, police said, and two locals told Reuters hundreds of students were missing.
Police spokesman Gambo Issa said in a statement that the gunmen stormed a government science secondary school in Kankara district at around 9.40pm, and police opened fire at the scene, leaving some students to run for safety. Said.
Police said they are working closely with the Army and Air Force to find and find out how many students are missing or abducted. An officer was shot and wounded in an exchange of fire with the gang, they said.
Chaotic scenes were witnessed at the school on Saturday when half of the school’s half-a-hundred students were still missing, with half of the parents and security personnel gathered, a parent and a school employee told Reuters.
K Nige Tsina, President of Nigeria, the home state of Muhammadu Buhari, suffers from violent bandits who regularly attack locals and kidnap them for ransom. Attacks by Islamist militants are common in the north-east of the country.
Many people have been killed by Islamist militants in the north-eastern state of Borno late last month – after beheading some – and the overall violence and insecurity in Nigeria has angered civilians.
Bunkari, who arrived in his hometown about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Kankara on Friday for a week, decided to make a brief presentation to the National Assembly last week on the security situation, but canceled it without making an official statement.
