Bandits raid Sokoto school, abduct 15 students
About an hour after midnight on Saturday, hordes of bandits attacked Gidan Bakuso in the Gada Local Government of Sokoto State, kidnapping 15 Tsangaya students and a female villager.
The Sokoto Police Command spokesperson, Ahmad Rufai, confirmed the kidnapping to Peoples Gazette and emphasised that rescue operations were underway.
“We have mobilised a tactical squad led by DC Operations to go after them(the bandits),” Mr Rufai told The Gazette Saturday evening. He stressed that the gunmen kidnapped 15 students and a female villager.
The police spokesperson explained that Gidan Bakuso was a “remote” community located quite a distance from Gada city, so villagers could not immediately alert the police.
This incident is the most recent in a string of kidnappings that have occurred during the week.
On Thursday, over 200 children, all under 15 years old, were taken into captivity after hordes of motorcycle-riding bandits invaded LEA school in Kuriga village in Kaduna state.
The incident, including the abduction of the principal and some teachers, occurred shortly after the general assembly, around 8:00 a.m., according to Sani Abdullahi, a teacher in the secondary school section, who narrated the tragic experience to the state governor, Uba Sani.
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