Students were just about to settle into their classes after singing Nigeria's national anthem when the gunshots rang out.
Students were just about to settle into their classes after singing Nigeria's national anthem when the gunshots rang out. Then chaos erupted.
It was one of the largest recent mass kidnappings by gunmen known locally as bandits in Nigeria where criminal gangs target schools, colleges and highways as they hunt for large groups of victims to make ransom demands. Then bandits began shooting in the air as they attacked the school where 1,000 schoolchildren where about to start classes. Children and teachers scattered to escape.
“We trekked for hours in the scorching heat until we were all exhausted,” Abubakar told AFP while sheltering under a tree along the lone road that runs through the village.On three occasions, a military fighter jet flew over but their captors told them to lay on the ground and ordered them to take off their white school shirts to hide them better from the air.
Ahmad, a member of the village’s community protection force, said he ran into house for his hunting gun to engage the attackers along with other vigilantes. Sani Hassan, a teacher in the secondary school section, was having his breakfast just outside when someone raised an alarm. Niger State government has presented cheques to the tune of N70m to victims of fire and bandits attacked in some communities in the state.
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