Gunmen have attacked a girls’ school in Zamfara, kidnapping at least three hundred students.
The newsmen reported on Friday morning that the mass kidnap happened overnight, adding that parents of some of the students have confirmed the development.
The newsmen reported the school as Government Girls’ Secondary School in Jangebe.
The kidnap happened barely a few weeks after hundreds of schoolboys were kidnapped in Katsina by gunmen, causing nationwide confusion.
Nine days ago, gunmen invaded a high school in Niger State and captured about 29 students and school administrators. National security sources told newsmen that the federal government paid $2.099 million (N800 million) as ransom, but the students and their teachers were not freed after Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello captured wind of the arrangement and instigated a cordoning of the vast forest where the students and their captors have been held up.
A spokesman for the police in Zamfara did not immediately return a request seeking comments from the Gazette about today’s kidnap of schoolgirls.
Zamfara security and internal affairs commissioner Abubakar Dauran reported the incident, saying, time to rescue the students had commenced.
“At this moment, l cannot express how many students were taken away by the gunmen until l get there, but we have already mobilized security men and members of the vigilantatè who are now in pursuit of the abductors,” Mr. Dauran said as reported by News Agency of Nigeria.