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Bandits released 11 of the abducted Islamiyya students- Niger govt
By Modupe Shodeinde
The Niger State government has disclosed the release of 11 children among kidnapped students of Salihu Tanko Islamic School.
According to the Chief Press Secretary to the state governor, Mary Noel-Berje, 11 of the students were released because they were too young and could not walk.
“Meanwhile, 11 children who were too small and couldn’t walk, among the kidnapped Islamiyya Students, were released by the gunmen,” she said in a statement.
Gunmen on Sunday had kidnapped scores of pupils of the Islamic school in Tegina, a densely populated town in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State.
Some 200 children were at the school at the time of the attack, the Niger state government said on Twitter, adding that “an unconfirmed number” were taken.
The abduction came a day after 14 students from a university in northwestern Nigeria were freed after 40 days in captivity.
Niger state police spokesman Wasiu Abiodun said the attackers arrived on motorbikes in Tegina town and started shooting indiscriminately, killing one resident and injuring another, before kidnapping the children from the Salihu Tanko Islamic school.
