Bandits Invade Hostels, Abduct Zamfara Varsity Students

• Yusuf Oketola

An unspecified number of students of Federal University of Gusau were on Friday morning, abducted by bandits who invaded their hostels.

The bandits were also said to have invaded the Sabon-Gida community of the Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State during the raid.

OSUN DEFENDER gathered that three students’ hostels were attacked and all the students were carted away by the bandits during the attack.

The bandits were said to have been engaged by troops of the Nigerian Army in a fierce gun battle, but they escaped with the victims.

Sources in Sabon-Gida told newsmen that the gunmen invaded the community around 3 a.m. and started shooting sporadically.

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According to a source, “They entered the town around 3 a.m. and started shooting indiscriminately. We have yet to confirm the number of students kidnapped because the bandits entered three hostels and kidnapped all the students there. It is difficult to ascertain their numbers now.

“They were seriously engaged with the army troops but the way these bandits operate, they will divide themselves into two, one group will move with the kidnapped victims while the other will stay behind to protect the first group.

“The first group had left with the students while the second group engaged the army in a gun duel.”