NIGERIAN security forces on Thursday said they were tracking the armed gang that kidnapped more than 40 people from a school a day earlier, as families and a survivor described how students fled gunfire during the early morning attack.
The kidnapping in Kagara in central Niger state was the latest mass abduction in Nigeria, where criminal gangs known as “bandits” have stepped up violent attacks on communities.
Gunmen in military uniforms raided the Government Science College in Kagara early Wednesday, killing one student and spiriting others into a nearby forest.
Kidnappers snatched 42 people, including 27 students, three teachers and other relatives of school staff, according to Niger state officials.
“We are doing whatever we can to free the students and the teachers,” Niger state information commissioner Muhammad Sani Idris told AFP.
“They are being pressed. We have security agents on their heels. We are hoping we will rescue the
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