(ANSA-AFP) - KANO, 20 DEC - A few dozen students were kidnapped last night by armed men in the north-west of Nigeria, to be released this morning following the intervention of a police self-defense group. This was reported to AFPUN spokesman for the local police, Gambo Isah.
Last night 80 students returning from their village of Mahuta, in the state of Katsina, were kidnapped by bandits who had already kidnapped four other people. "All 84 were released today," the spokesman said. According to local sources, the number of students involved would rise to 113.
In Niegria, the phenomenon of kidnapping, even en masse, of children and students, in the style of the Islamic terrorists of Boko Haram, but by common criminals in search of ransom money . (ANSA-AFP).
