Many injured in Violence on return of students to Jangebe

04 Mar Many injured in Violence on return of students to Jangebe

At least one person was feared killed and others injured in Jangebe, the Zamfara community where some schoolgirls were abducted last week.

After the students regained freedom, the government took them for counselling and rehabilitation.

However, when they were brought back to the school to reunite with their family members on Wednesday, pandemonium broke out after anxious parents disrupted the speech of Alhaji Nasiru Muazu Magarya, Speaker of the Zamfara House of Assembly, and forcefully took their daughters away.

The schoolgirls were seated in the examination hall and were being addressed by the speaker when the visibly disturbed parents broke in to the hall and started throwing insults at the dignitaries that were meant to address the parents and the school girls.

Sensing trouble, the speaker and commissioners attending the event quickly left shots were fired by security operatives to disperse the crowd that was waiting outside the school.

The youths began throwing stones at the security operatives that were moving out of the community.

A young man stained blood and was seen being held by other youths at the scene.

The vehicle conveying journalists had to quickly move out of the community as the youth were pelting vehicles with stones.