Niger: Bandits abduct school children in fresh attack

By Deborah Hassan

365Daily – Armed bandits have abducted a yet to be ascertained number of pupils in a fresh attack on a private Islamic school in Tegina, Rafi Local Government Area, Niger State.

The school, which consists of nursery and primary sections, offers Islamiyya lessons in the evening and at weekends.

It is located in the same local government area with Kagara, where bandits abducted many students from a government secondary school earlier in the year.

Reports say the bandits, in what has become a pattern, seized the police station in the town first, before shooting sporadically into the air to scare residents and proceeding to abduct the pupils.

The school’s proprietor, Yakubu Idris, confirmed the incident, adding that his younger sister is among the abducted.

The Police is yet to make a statement on the incident.

 

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