Hundreds of Students Feared Missing After Attack at Nigeria School

Hundreds of pupils in Nigeria are been afraid missing out on after shooters stormed a senior high school in the north state of Katsina, information firms as well as the Nigerian authorities stated.

Gunmen hurried right into the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara at around 9:40 p.m. Friday, capturing AK-47 rifles right into the air as well as assembling pupils, the cops in Katsina stated.

It was vague the number of pupils had actually been abducted. Witnesses as well as authorities have actually approximated that the institution commonly holds 800 to 1,200 pupils. More than 200 pupils that were abducted were saved, Isah Gambo, a cops representative, stated Saturday in a declaration.

But concerning 400 pupils stayed unaccounted for, a moms and dad as well as institution staff member informed the Reuters information company, as well as the authorities, consisting of the military as well as flying force, were functioning to obtain the missing out on pupils back.

The strike was met resistance by the cops, which permitted some pupils to scale the fencing of the institution as well as compete safety and security as well as “forced the hoodlums to retreat into the forest,” Mr. Gambo stated.

The army tracked the opponents as well as traded shooting with them in a woodland in Kankara, Garba Shehu, a representative for President Muhammadu Buhari, stated Saturday.

No trainee casualties have actually been reported, although one policeman was fired throughout the opponents’ raid on the institution on Friday as well as required to a health center, the cops stated. The capturings around the institution “sent hundreds of them fleeing and scrambling over the perimeter walls,” Mr. Shehu stated.

It was not promptly remove that lagged the strike. Some witnesses stated the shooters were Fulani, a nomadic ethnic team in Nigeria, yet the authorities have actually not confirmed those assertions.

But the strike, similar to the 2014 kidnapping of schoolgirls therefore near to the implementation this month of greater than 70 farmers in northeastern Nigeria by Boko Haram militants, outraged Nigerians that charged the federal government of not safeguarding its residents. Kidnappings for ransom money have actually happened in the location near the kidnappings.

President Buhari, that remained in his house state of Katsina for a check out when the strike happened, on Saturday condemned “the cowardly bandits’ attack on innocent children.” He routed that safety be tightened up around colleges.

Aminu Masari, Katsina state’s guv, has actually purchased all colleges in the state to be shut, the neighborhood information media reported.

On Saturday, moms and dads as well as loved ones of the missing out on pupils collected at the institution to wait for details.

“I have a child and a younger brother who’ve been taken by the kidnappers,” stated Bint’a Ismael, that informed the British Broadcasting Corporation on Saturday that she had actually been waiting at the institution considering that dawn for an upgrade.

“We are terrified here in Katsina state,” she stated. “We don’t see the point of the government.”