Armed Bandits have kidnapped atleast 317 schoolgirls in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, police said in a statement on Friday, the second such kidnapping in little over a week.
Police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement obtained by IgbereTV that “the Zamfara State Police Command in collaboration with the military have commenced a joint search and rescue operations with a view to rescuing the 317 students kidnapped by the armed bandits in Government Girls Science Secondary School Jangebe”.
Earlier, Sulaiman Tanau Anka, information commissioner for Zamfara state, told newsmen that “unknown gunmen … took the girls away” in a midnight raid on the Jangebe Government Girls’ Secondary School.
“Information available to me said they came with vehicles and moved the students, they also moved some on foot,” Anka said, adding that security forces were hunting through the area.
