One student was killed and 10 people were abducted when gunmen struck a school in northern Nigeria, on Thursday.
The gunmen attacked the main campus of the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in Zaria, Kaduna state, late on Thursday, shooting sporadically and kidnapping two lecturers and eight students, according to Samuel Aruwan, the state’s commissioner for internal security.
Two students were shot one lethally, while the other was being treated in emergency clinic, Aruwan said.
Aliyu Kofa, chairman of the school’s section of the Association of Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), said two lecturers and about 10 students were abducted. He added that the bandits had released families of the staff, who were first kidnapped.
The kidnappers had not made any ransom demands as of date, as per Kofa and Aruwan.
Kidnappings by armed men generally alluded to as criminals, have gotten endemic in northern Nigeria. In excess of 800 students have been kidnapped since December, early this month about 200 students were taken from a school in Niger state
