Five kidnapped Zamfara students escape

03 Sep Five kidnapped Zamfara students escape

Five of the students kidnapped on Wednesday from Government Day Secondary School, Kaya in Zamfara State have escaped and returned home, hours after they were kidnapped.

The students were kidnapped Wednesday afternoon while some of them were preparing to write their mock examinations.

A vice principal, Zayyanu Take Tsaba, was confirmed to be among those abducted while a police statement put the number if students kidnapped at 75.

But speaking to BBC Hausa Thursday evening, a parent, who pleaded anonymity, said his abducted daughters returned home at around 1 a.m.

He said the children told him the bandits had divided them into two groups, possibly to avoid being easily tracked by security agents.