By our reporter| The police in Katsina on Saturday night rescued 80 students who were abducted from an Islamiyya school in Dandume local government area of the state.
The students were abducted by unidentified gunmen on their way back from Maulid celebrations at a village called Unguwar Al-Kasim in the same local government area.
According to a statement by the spokesman of the Katsina Police Command, SP Gambo Isah on Sunday, a distress call was received by the Police at about 10 pm on Saturday that some Islamiyya students of Hizburrahim Islamiyya, Mahuta village were abducted.
“Numbering about 80, while on their way back from Maulud occasion celebrated at Unguwan Alkasim village, Dandume to Mahuta village, [they] were accosted by bandits, who had already kidnapped four persons and rustled 12 cows from Danbaure village, Funtua LGA, trying to escape into the forest.
On receipt of the report, “the DPO led Operations Puff Adder, Sharan Daji and Vigilante group to the area and engaged the bandits into a fierce gun duel.
“Subsequently, the teams succeeded in dislodging the bandits and rescued all the 84 kidnapped victims and recovered all the twelve rustled cows,” the statement read in part.
According to the police, search parties were still combing the area with a view of arresting the injured bandits and recovery of their dead bodies as investigation was ongoing.
Saturday’s abduction is coming on the heels of Thursday’s rescue of 344 schoolboys who were abducted on Friday 11th December, 2020 from their dormitory.
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