Parents gather during a meeting at the Government Science school after gunmen abducted students from it, in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina state, Nigeria December 13, 2020.
Gunmen on motorcycles stormed the Government Science School at Kankara late on Friday and engaged security forces in a fierce gunbattle, forcing hundreds of students to flee and hide in surrounding bushes and forest. National police spokesman Frank Mbas said "additional operational and investigative assets to support the ongoing search and rescue operations in Kankara," had been deployed.
Masari directed the school to take a headcount of the students to determine those who went back home.Meanwhile, parents have converged on the secondary schoo begging authorities to save hundreds of boys abducted by gunmen One of his missing sons, 17-year-old Buhari, was named after President Muhammadu Buhari, a native of Katsina state.
"We will not rest until we see the end of this," Katsina state spokesman Abdul Labaran told Reuters. Labaran said military and intelligence chiefs were in Kankara to lead the rescue.All state schools in Katsina were ordered to close because officials did not know the attackers' motives, the education commissioner said.Osama Aminu Maale was one of the students who escaped the abductors and returned to his parents.
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