There were reports that several boarding students were Friday night kidnapped by unknown gunmen from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara (all-boys school) in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Sources said that the attackers shot the security guard attached to the school, who was rushed to an undisclosed hospital, where he was being treated.
A source from the area said that currently head count was ongoing and out of over 800 students in the school, less than 200 were found while scores were kidnapped and others fled into the bush for safety.
He said the gunmen had initially invaded Kankara main town, shooting sporadically but were repelled by the security operatives of Operation Sahel Sanity and Operation Hadarin Daji.
However, on their way out they attacked the school, which is located on the outskirts of the town. “The bandits stormed Kankara town around 10:06pm shooting sporadically. They came to the town and even close to the residence of the District Head,” the source said.
“DPO alerted Operation Sharan Daji and Operation Sahel Sanity who repelled the attack. On their way out, they attacked the Government Science Secondary School which is located on the outskirts on the way to Yan Tsabau, shot the security guard and break the gate and entered the school.
The source said that they were conducting headcount and out of over 800 students in the school, and that so far less than 200 had been found, while scores were kidnapped and others fled into the bush for safety,” the source said.
On the night of 14–15 April 2014, about 276 mostly Christian female students, were kidnapped from the Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria, by members of the Boko Haram Islamist group.
