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Number of missing Nigerian students raised to 39 after armed raid - Kaduna state

Published 13/03/2021, 10:29

By Garba Muhammad
KADUNA, Nigeria March 13 (Reuters) - Nine more students than
originally thought are missing after gunmen stormed a forestry
college in northwest Nigeria earlier this week, a government
official in Nigeria's Kaduna state said on Saturday.
The revision brings the total number of missing students to
39 following Thursday's nighttime raid on the Federal College of
Forestry Mechanization, the fourth mass school abduction in
northern Nigeria since December.
Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna state's security commissioner, said
the missing comprised of 23 females and 16 males.
"The Kaduna state government is maintaining close
communication with the management of the college as efforts are
sustained by security agencies towards the tracking of the
missing students," Aruwan said.
The armed gang broke into the school in Kaduna state,
located on the outskirts of Kaduna city near a military academy,
at around 11:30 p.m. (2230 GMT) on Thursday.
Aruwan said on Friday that the army rescued 180 people after
a distress call in the early morning hours.
Kaduna city is the capital of Kaduna state, part of a region
where attacks by gangs of armed men, referred to as bandits,
have festered for years.
Military and police attempts to tackle the gangs have had
little success, while many worry that state authorities are
making the situation worse by letting kidnappers go unpunished,
paying them off or providing incentives.

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