THE Nigerian military had located and exchanged fire with gunmen who kidnapped scores of secondary school students in northwestern Katsina State, according to a statement from the country’s president on Saturday.
The gunmen stormed the Government Science secondary school in Kankara district at about 9:40 p.m. local time on Friday, police and locals said.
A parent and school employee told Reuters that roughly half of the school’s 800 students were missing.
President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement that the military had located the kidnappers in a forest and was exchanging fire with them, aided by air support. In the statement, Buhari condemned the attack in his home state.
Police and the military were still working to determine how many were kidnapped and missing.
Police at the scene on Friday exchanged fire with the attackers, allowing some students to run for safety, police spokesperson Gambo Isah said in a statement.
Police said
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