A police operation is underway against the five students kidnapped on Wednesday, they said.
Gunmen kidnapped five academics in northern Nigeria, police said, days after more than 20 others were abducted from a nearby area.
A police operation is underway against the five students kidnapped on Wednesday, they said.
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“At around 2 a. m. , suspected terrorists abducted five students from the Federal University,” Katsina state police spokesman Aliyu Abubakar Sadiq said on Wednesday.
It comes less than two weeks after gunmen belonging to “bandit” gangs abducted more than 30 people, including at least 24 students, in a raid around a university on the outskirts of Gusau, the capital of Zamfara state.
Nigerian troops rescued 16 of the hostages, bringing the total to 13 students.
It was the first mass abduction of a school since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came forcibly in May, vowing to tackle a lack of trust in Nigeria, where kidnapping gangs for ransom have continuously attacked schools.
Zamfara and Katsina are several states in northwestern and central Nigeria where bandit gangs operate, attacking villages, killing and kidnapping residents, burning and looting homes.
Criminals are notorious for mass kidnappings of academics in recent years.
In February 2021, bandits attacked a girls’ boarding school in the town of Jangebe, Zamfara State, abducting more than three hundred female students.
The women were released a few days later after a ransom was paid through the authorities.
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