A teacher at the GSS Kuriga school in Chikun district says 187 pupils had been snatched from the main junior school along with another 100 from primary classes.
In the last three years, hundreds of schoolchildren and college students have been kidnapped in mass abductions in the northwest and central region, including in Kaduna. / Photo: AP
"Nothing else is acceptable to me and the waiting family members of these abducted citizens. Justice will be decisively administered." The Kaduna State Government and Security Agencies are working round the clock to ensure the safe return of the school children abducted in Kuriga community, Chikun Local Government. I have received strong assurances from the President and National Security Adviser that no stone…
"Early in the morning... we heard gunshots from bandits. Before we knew it, they had gathered up the children," resident Musa Mohammed said."We are pleading to the government, all of us are pleading, they should please help us with security." More than 100 people were reported missing after last week's mass kidnapping in Borno, but conflicting accounts have emerged about the time and number of victims.