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Katsina School Attack: One Student Escaped From Abductors – DHQ
One of the students kidnapped when armed bandits stormed a Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State has escaped from the abductors.
“Out of that 333, before I came into the studio, one escaped out of wherever they kept them,” the Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche said on a TV programme monitored by Eko Hot Blog on Monday.
The military spokesman also confirmed that 333 students were missing following the attack on Friday night.
“The principal reported that he had 839 in the boarding house; and as at the time they were abducted, shortly after that, some came back and it was about five hundred plus that did not return,” he said in corroboration of the figure earlier released by the Katsina State Government.
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Enenche who said the kidnappers ferried the student away from the school via motorcycles, noted that security agencies are working to ensure the students are rescued alive.
Meanwhile, a resident of Kankara Local Government Area in Katsina State earlier revealed that the abduction of the students was a reprisal attack.
“There is something people are yet to know; before the recent abduction of Ƙankara Secondary School students, the bandits had on Wednesday attacked ‘Yar-Kuka village and killed 12 people and abducted an unspecified number of people in the village.
“On Thursday, vigilante group mobilised and went after the bandits in their hideouts and engaged in burning down the Fulani houses, injuring and killing some of them,” the source said.
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