Kidnappers believed to be bandits on Sunday attempted to stage another mass abduction in a secondary school and also attacked the staff quarters of aviation workers in Kaduna.
However, luck eluded the criminals this time as the two missions turned into a fiasco as they were repelled in time by the Nigerian military killing and injuring some of them in the process.
This development was confirmed by Kaduna State commissioner for internal security Samuel Aruwan when he addressed a press briefing in Kaduna today that the kidnappers struck at Government Science Secondary school in the Ikara Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
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Aruwan said the bandits invaded the school in the late hours of Saturday and attempted to abduct the students before the arrival of soldiers who engaged the criminals in a gun battle.
According to him, the students used the security warning system to alert security forces in the area.
They moved swiftly to the school and engaged the bandits, forcing them to flee.
He further said that no student was missing following a headcount after the foiled kidnap attempt.
Aruwan also disclosed that troops of the Nigerian Airforce foiled another attack by bandits at the Kaduna International Airport senior staff quarters around Ifira village in the Igabi local government area.
He further explained that the troops engaged the bandits in a gun battle, forcing some of them to flee with gunshot wounds.
The latest kidnapping attempts are coming just a few days after 39 students were abducted from the Federal College of Forestry in Kaduna.
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