BEVERLY HILLS, April 21, (THEWILL) – Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted some students during an attack on a private university in Kaduna State on Tuesday night.
The academic institution, Green Field University, is located along the Kaduna-Abuja Highway in Chikun Local Government Area, and also the first private university in the state established three years ago.
The Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the incident on Wednesday.
However, eyewitnesses said the gunmen stormed the university last night and started shooting sporadically, before taking some of the students away.
The locals said that the university, with about 40 students population, did not have enough security on the ground, despite being located in one of the epicentres of kidnapping, a situation which they believed made it easier for the bandits to gain easy access into the institution.
Kaduna has been a target for kidnappers in recent times.
The latest incident is the first major attack that bandits will launch on communities around the Kaduna-Abuja highway since 300 female soldiers were deployed to the general area in January this year.
On March 11th, they attacked the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, in the Igabi Local Government Area of the state and kidnapped 39 students.
While 10 out of the number have been released, the fate of the remaining ones still hangs in the balance.
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