Over 300 students kidnapped from high school

Nigerian society was puzzled when they heard terrible news: 317 female students were abducted from a middle School secondary after an attack by a group of armed men. “Zamfara State Police and the Army have launched a joint operation to help the 317 students kidnapped by armed bandits at Jangebe Girls’ Boarding House,” the local police spokesperson said, Mohammed Shehu, in a statement.

“They came to school with vehicles, then they forced some of the girls to accompany them,” said Sulaiman Tunau Anka, a local government spokesperson. A teacher said that 600 teenagers They were in the dormitories of the students’ school during the attack and more than 300 were not found because they were kidnapped. Security forces have been deployed in the area to “hunt down criminals,” local authorities said.

It is removal it is the latest in a series of similar events perpetrated in central and northwestern Nigeria by criminal groups that terrorize the population, steal livestock and loot villages. Last week, around 40 people, including 27 students, were kidnapped in Kagara, Niger state, in west-central Nigeria, and 344 teenagers suffered the same fate in early December in Kankara, in Nigeria. Katsina State.

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In the most recent case, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari launched a rescue operation and negotiations with the kidnappers are currently underway, but the hostages have yet to be released. In the case of the Kankara adolescents, they were released after a week of captivity and negotiations between gangs and local governments. The kidnapping sparked global unrest and recalled one of more than 200 girls from Islamist group Boko Haram to Chibok, northeast Nigeria, in 2014.

Some of these criminal gangs have ties to jihadist groups that often hide in Rugu Forest, which includes Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna, and Niger.