More than 300 students were taken early Thursday morning by armed bandits on motorcycles who stormed the LEA Primary and Secondary School in Kuriga village, in Kaduna’s Chikun district, the state’s…
Murtala Abubakar, a 17-year-old student of LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga, who was abducted by gunmen and later escaped by crawling inside a bush to safety, speaks during an interview outside his class room in Kuriga, Kaduna, Nigeria, Saturday, March 9, 2024.
The member of the Kuriga community said he believed the kidnappers got his number from the head of the school’s junior secondary section, who was kidnapped alongside the students. Some of the students were rescued but 287 of them remain with the kidnappers. About 100 of them are from the primary school and the rest from the secondary school.
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