Policeman killed, greater than 80 college students kidnapped in assault on Nigerian faculty

Gunmen killed a police officer and kidnapped at the very least 80 college students and 5 academics from a college within the Nigerian state of Kebbi, police, residents and a trainer mentioned.The assault is the third mass kidnapping in three weeks in northwest Nigeria, which have authorities have attributed to armed bandits in search of ransom funds.Usman Aliyu, a trainer on the faculty, mentioned the gunmen took greater than 80 college students, most of them women.”They killed one of the (police officers), broke through the gate and went straight to the students’ classes,” he informed Reuters.Kebbi State police spokesman Nafiu Abubakar, mentioned the gunmen killed one officer throughout an change and in addition shot a pupil, who was receiving medical remedy.ALSO READ | Nigeria: 300 schoolgirls lacking after newest ‘mass abduction’ by gunmenPolice late on Thursday had not launched the variety of college students lacking, and a spokesman for the Kebbi state governor mentioned they have been conducting a tally of the lacking.The assault came about at a federal authorities faculty within the distant city of Birnin Yauri. Abubakar mentioned safety forces have been looking a close-by forest for the kidnapped college students and academics.Atiku Aboki, a resident who went to the varsity shortly after the gunfire stopped, mentioned he noticed a scene of panic and confusion as folks searched for his or her youngsters.”When we got there we saw students crying, teachers crying, everyone is sympathising with people,” he mentioned by phone.ALSO READ | Gunmen abduct 30 college students from faculty in northwest Nigeria”Everyone was confused. Then my brother called me (to say) that his two children have not been seen and (we) don’t know if they are among the kidnapped.”Bandits in search of ransom have kidnapped greater than 800 Nigerian college students from their faculties since December in a sequence of raids. Some have been freed whereas others stay lacking.The raids within the northwestern area are separate from Islamist insurgencies centred on the northeast, the place the Boko Haram militant group made international headlines in 2014 when it kidnapped greater than 270 schoolgirls from the city of Chibok.ALSO READ | Scores of kids kidnapped from Islamic seminary in Nigeria