The state government directed the shutting of the schools in September 2021 following the abduction of Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, students.
Seventy-five schools remain shut down in Zamfara, according to the education ministry.
“Some citizens have been killed by bandits in six villages of Giwa LGA,” he said.
All schools in the state were shut down on September 1, 2021, when bandits abducted 80 students and three teachers from the Government Day Secondary School.
The police command in Zamfara says it has rescued five of the 73 abducted students of the Government Day Secondary School, Kaya.
SP Muhammed Shehu, the police spokesman, confirmed the abduction in a statement released in Gusau on Wednesday.
