Police in Kebbi State has confirmed the abduction of 25 students of Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School GGCSS, Maga, Danko district, Danko/Wasagu local government area of the State.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Nafiu Abubakar disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen in Birnin Kebbi the state capital.
According to the statement, the command received an information revealing that, a gang of armed bandits with sophisticated weapons, shooting sporadically, stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, Danko district, Danko/Wasagu LGA of Kebbi State.
It added that, the police tactical units deployed in the school engaged them into a gun duel but the suspected bandits had already scaled through the fence of the school and abducted Twenty Five students from their hostel to unknown destination.
Similarly, the attackers killed the school’s Vice Principal, Malam Hassan Makuku, before abducting several schoolgirls, while Ali Shehu sustained injury in his right hand.
Upon receiving the unfortunate incident, a combined team of additional Police tactical units, military personnel and Vigilantes has been deployed in the area and they are currently combing the bandits’ routes and nearby forest, with a view to rescue the abducted students and possibly arrest the perpetrators of the act.
REL/ SANI DUTSINMA
