333 students missing after bandits attack Katsina school

Katsina State Governor, Bello Masari, tells the Federal Government delegation led by Defence Minister, Bashir Magashi, and Service Chiefs that 333 students of Government Science Secondary School Kankara cannot be accounted for after attack by bandits.

This comes 48 hours after bandits invaded the Government Secondary Science School Kankara, Katsina State, authorities are yet to disclose the exact number of students that were abducted.

The daring attack which happened the same day President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in Katsina, his home state, has elicited outrage with some youth groups threatening to occupy the city if nothing is done to ensure the immediate release of the students.

After Friday’s attack on Government Science Secondary School Katsina, the school authority and security agencies in Katsina State had promised to provide an accurate headcount of all the missing students.

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On Saturday, the government ordered the closure of all boarding schools in the state, a decision that may have only further enraged indigenes of the state.

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