At least 24 Students of the Federal University Gusau have been Abducted by Bandits in the early hours of Friday 22nd September, 2023.
A student of the school, who asked to be anonymous for security reasons, said that over 24 schoolmates, mostly ladies, were abducted during the attack.
Yemiefashmedia gathered that the gunmen invaded the students’ residence at Sabon-Gida identified as Nazeer Sabon-Gida and took away the dwellers, who were mostly female students of the school.
According to him, three students’ hostels were attacked and all the students in the hostels were taken away by the bandits.
“They entered the town around 3 am and started shooting indiscriminately,” he said.
“It was around midnight when they came to the area. Everybody heard the shooting because they did not stop till the time they left,” the student said.
Another student, who simply identified himself as Abubakar revealed that he awoke on Friday to hear the news, which has caused panic and fear in the university community.
According to reports , The bandits were said to have seriously engaged with the army troops “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,” a source said.
“The first group had left with the students while the second group engaged the army in a gun duel.”