Bandits in their numbers were reported to have attacked Government Science secondary school, Kankara in Kastina. The policemen on duty were said to have responded to the attack and engaged them in a gun duel which gave the students the opportunity to scale the fence of the school and ran for safety.
Meanwhile, the DPO reinforced the policemen on duty with Armoured Personnel Carrier, (APC) which forced the hoodlums to retreat back into the forest. One Inspector sustained a gunshot wound and was taken to the hospital and is responding to treatment.
In the course of the investigation, the DPO rescued over two hundred students back into the school compound. The police, Nigerian Army, and Nigerian Air Force are working closely with the school authorities to ascertain the actual number of the missing and/or kidnapped students while search parties are assiduously working with a view to finding and/or rescuing the missing students.
“It will be too early to say at this particular moment the actual number of students that have been kidnapped or missing”. SP Gambo Isah, PPRO