Sunday, December 13, 2020

Parents appeal to Nigeria gov’t to rescue kidnapped students | Al Jazeera

Katsina state

Parents and family members have gathered on a secondary boarding school in Kankara, in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state, issuing a plea to authorities to bring to safety hundreds of students believed to have been seized by gunmen.

Security forces had exchanged fire with a gang that took the students from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, a spokesman for the president said on Saturday night, but parents on Sunday said they had heard little more on the fate of their children.

Murja Mohammed, whose son was taken, begged authorities for help.

“If it’s not government that will help us, we have no power to rescue our children,” she told Reuters news agency.

State spokesman Abdul Labaran said military and intelligence chiefs were in Kankara to lead the rescue. While 321 students were missing, he said some could have gone home to other states.  Some boys seen in the area reportedly said they had escaped from the forest where the gunmen took them.

“We will not rest until we see the end of this,” Labaran told Reuters....

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1 comment :

  1. Government troops have surrounded the area where gunmen are believed to be holding schoolchildren hostage in north-western Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesman has said.

    Ten children are reportedly being held captive, Garba Shehu said, far fewer than the number staff reported missing.

    About 800 pupils were enrolled at the all-boys school in Katsina state and about half remain unaccounted for.

    The attackers are thought to be seeking ransom, Mr Shehu said.

    The government has blamed the attack on bandits, a loose term for gangs operating in the area.

    Amnesty International says more than 1,100 people were killed by bandits in northern Nigeria in the first six months of this year, with the government failing to bring the attackers to justice.

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