Desk Report
Publish: 20 Jun 2021, 10:18 pm
The two girls and a boy were found dead, two with gunshot wounds in their legs || Photo: Collected
Three children have died
following a school kidnapping of 94 students and eight staff in northwest
Nigeria this week, the establishment's principal said on Sunday.
The kidnapping for ransom is the
latest in a series of such incidents in northern Nigeria, with a sharp rise in
abductions since late 2020 as the government struggles to maintain law and
order amid a flagging economy.
The two girls and a boy were
found dead, two with gunshot wounds in their legs said Mustapha Yusuf,
principal of the federal government college in the remote town of Birnin Yauri
in northwest Nigeria's Kebbi state.
Nine abductees escaped or had
been rescued but the kidnappers held the rest, with security forces wary of
staging a rescue attempt for fear of harming the children, Yusuf said.
The kidnappers "have been
taking cover under the students ... They are in the bush," he said, adding those bandits had used students' phones to call parents and demand a 60 million
naira ($146,341) ransom.
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