Local residents and a member of the varsity’s employees mentioned Wednesday {that a} large-scale kidnapping spree within the area was suspected to be the kidnapping of a giant group of youngsters from a college within the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara.
More than 1,100 college students have been kidnapped from their colleges or faculties in northwestern Nigeria since December 2020. Mass kidnappings, a tactic of Islamist rebels within the northeast in earlier years, have just lately been carried out by armed gangs within the northwest to demand ransom.
The newest incident occurred at a secondary faculty within the metropolis of Kaya, a number of native residents informed Reuters. Kaya is situated in a rural space of ​​Zamfara which has been one of many worst affected states.
A member of the varsity’s employees confirmed arrival by phone and mentioned the variety of kids kidnapped was not but generally known as the counting was underway. He mentioned that greater than 500 kids have been enrolled within the faculty.
Zamfara is considered one of 4 states in northwestern Nigeria which have taken measures to comprise the safety disaster. They have banned the sale of gasoline in jerry cans and the transportation of firewood by truck, hoping to disrupt gangs touring by bike and tenting within the forests.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
