Six students of a private secondary school and two of their teachers in Kakau Daji village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State were yesterday kidnapped by gunmen.
The village is located behind the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals Company (KRPC) in the state capital.
Confirming the incident, spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command, Yakubu Sabo, said the gunmen invaded the school through a porous fence in the early hours of yesterday, went straight to the female hostel and abducted six students.
The spokesman also disclosed that two teachers residing inside the school were also kidnapped by the bandits and their whereabouts yet unknown.
Sabo explained that a combined team of police mobile force and anti-kidnapping squad of the command have launched a manhunt for the kidnappers with a view to rescuing the victims alive and apprehending the culprits.
He also advised proprietors of private schools to beef up their premises with adequate security in order not to expose their students to any form of attack.
One of the parents whose daughter was abducted said that he received a call from the abductors yesterday morning.
He said: “They told my daughter to give them a number to call and that was when they called me, but I couldn’t understand if they were asking for ransom because they spoke in a language I could barely understand. I spoke with my daughter and then they collected the phone from her and terminated the call.”