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Bandits strike again, abduct tens of students in Sokoto community

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Barely 48 hours after bandits abducted more than 250 students of LEA Primary at kuriga, Kaduna State on Thursday, reports by Daily Trust indicate that bandits have again struck. This time, the date devil terrorists on Saturday morning kidnapped another unspecified number of students from a school in Tsangaya, Gidan Bakuso in Gada local government area of Sokoto state.

The number of those kidnapped remain unknown.

Daily Trust reported that the students were abducted from their school around 1am on Saturday.

The proprietor of the school, Liman Abubakar, said 15 students were unaccounted for so far but ā€œwe are still counting.ā€


According to Abubakar, the bandits invaded the town around 1am, shot one person and abducted a woman

 ā€œAs they were leaving the town, they sighted our students rushing into their rooms and they kidnapped many of them.

ā€œWe have so far counted 15 who are missing and we are still searching for more,ā€ he said

Abubakar added that this was not the first time the village was attacked by bandits.

The member, representing Gada-East Constituency at the state House of Assembly, Kabiru Dauda while confirming the attack, said he received a call from the village around 2am that it was invaded by bandits.

ā€œI reached out to the local government authorities and security agencies and I am sure they are doing something about it,ā€ he said.

A member representing, Isa Constituency, Habibu Modachi who confirmed the incident, believed it was a reprisal after security operatives raided banditsā€™ hideouts two days ago.

The spokesman of the Sokoto State Police Command, ASP Ahmad Rufaā€™i, said he was not aware of the development but he would contact the Divisional Police Officer of the local government areas and get back to our reporter.

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