Armed Bandits Kidnap College Students In Nigeria

A group of armed men stormed a college in north-west Nigeria in the early hours of Friday morning, opened fire and kidnapped an unknown number of students.

According to a police spokesperson who spoke to CNN, the students were abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Mando, Kaduna.

“The police and the military are on top of the situation. We are trying to liaise with the school management to know the exact number of students that were abducted and then see the possibility of rescuing them unhurt and arresting the perpetrators,” Kaduna police spokesman Mohammed Jalige said.

Sani Danjuma, a student at the college, said those abducted were all female students, but authorities were unable to confirm this.

Other students said some of the young women had managed to escape during the attack.