(GNB- Desk): Dozens of students were kidnapped from their school in northwestern Nigeria during the early morning hours on Friday, local media reported.
Around 30 students have been reported missing after gunmen attacked a forestry college near a military academy in the northwest Nigerian state of Kaduna, the fourth mass school abduction since December.
Confirming the incident, the spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command, Mohammed Jalige told Channels Television that the attackers invaded the college located at Mando area in the outskirts of Kaduna metropolis at about 3 am on Friday and abducted some students.
Exact number of students abducted is uncertain, local media reported.
Senator Shehu Sani tweeted about the latest kidnapping. He said, “Bandits invaded and kidnap students at the Federal College of Forestry mechanization Afaka, in the outskirts of Kaduna,near the Airport and close to the Nigerian Defence Academy”.
“Our city is under siege,” he tweeted.
Last week, 279 schoolgirls were freed after being abducted from their boarding school at Jangebe in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state. Weeks before, dozens of children and staff were taken from a boarding school. In December, more than 300 boys were abducted.
It’s believed these crimes are part of a growing “kidnapping industry” in the region. Criminals kidnap vulnerable students for ransom.
When the 279 schoolgirls were released last week, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said that the Nigerian government is “working hard to bring an end to these grim and heartbreaking incidents of kidnapping.”
Sani said it appears the government has “really underestimated the enormity and gravity of the problem.”
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