By our reporter| The Kaduna state police command on Tuesday said it has rescued one of the kidnapped students of Bethel Baptist Secondary school in the Chikun local government area of Kaduna state has been rescued.
Bandits on July 5 abducted 121 students of the Kaduna-based school and five days later demanded food items from their parents to enable them to feed the children.
In a statement on Tuesday, the police said the rescued student, Abraham Aniya, was found roaming inside a forest in Tshohon Gaya village in Chikun local government area along with two other kidnap victims, Zaharaddeen Ibrahim and Nura Nuhu.
Ibrahim and Nuhu had been abducted by bandits along the Kaduna-Kachia road.
According to the statement by spokesperson Mohammed Jalige, they were found roaming the forest “extremely exhausted and weak” by police operatives and men of the Civilian JTF on routine patrol.
The police said the victims have been safely evacuated and rushed to a police clinic in the state capital, where they are currently being resuscitated, after which they will be handed over to their families.
It is not yet clear how the trio escaped from the bandits, but the police have promised to rescue more victims “within the shortest possible time.”
Mass school kidnappings have been rife in the north-western part of the country with the students of the Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna being one of the latest victims.
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