By Abba Gwale
Niger state government has confirmed that gunmen, on Tuesday night, abducted students and their teachers in Government Secondary School, Kagara.
A top government official confirmed the incident but he didn’t specifically revealed the number of the students kidnapped and their teachers.
Report says the bandits who were wearing army uniform, attacked the school, which has almost 1000 students.
On Tuesday night, they stormed into the school, killed the school gatemen before they kidnapped the students and their teachers but some of the students escaped in the process.
The authorities in the state are currently counting the remaining students in order to know the exact number of those that had been kidnapped.
As the time of writing this report the authorities did not reveal the number of the kidnapped students.