Bandits have invaded a residential area in Tsafe town and abducted five students of College of Health Science and Technology, Tsafe, Zamfara State.
Tsafe is a hotbed of banditry in the state. Several communities have been sacked and thousands killed and abducted in Zamfara State by groups of gunmen.
He said the bandits could not gain entrance to the school due to the heavy presence of security personnel.
The incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday. A source in the area told Channels Television that the students were abducted when heavily armed men stormed their residence outside the school campus.
The source, however, stated that one of the students escaped from the abductors.
The bandits attacked a privately run hostel opposite the school at around 11.24 p.m. and abducted many of the students in the residence.
Usman Abdullahi, an older brother to one of the victims, Asamau Salisu, said his family was informed of his sister’s abduction on Wednesday morning.
“We woke up to that phone call that my sister was one of the students taken,”. Usman said.
The police spokesperson in the state, Mohammed Shehu, confirmed the attack to this newspaper on Wednesday morning when our reporter reached out to him for comments on the incident.
He said the bandits broke into a rented apartment around 3 a.m. and abducted the students. He said four students of the school were abducted.
Shehu added that the state police command has drafted its special forces alongside other security personnel to rescue the victims.
