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Police Confirms Fresh Katsina Students’ Abduction, Says All 84 Abductees Rescued
Police in Katsina State have confirmed the abduction of eighty-four Islamiyya school children reportedly by bandits in Mahuta village of Dandume Local Government Area of the state but all the victims have since been rescued.
However, the Katsina state police command, confirming the incident, said that the rescue team engaged the bandits in a gun duel around 3:am after which they chased them away and rescued the victims.
The rescue operation follows a distress call received on Saturday at about 2200hrs, by the DPO Dandume, that some Islamiyya Students of Hizburrahim Islamiyya, Mahuta village, numbering about eighty were attacked while on their way back from Maulud occasion celebrated at Unguwan Alkasim village, the police command said.
In a statement released on Sunday by the Police Spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, the students were accosted by bandits who had already kidnapped four (4) persons and rustled twelve (12) cows from Danbaure village in Funtua LGA of the state trying to escape into the forest.
On receipt of the report, he said, the DPO led Operations “Puff Adder,” Sharan Daji and Vigilante group to the area and engaged the bandits into a fierce gun duel.
“Subsequently, the teams succeeded in dislodging the bandits and rescued all the eighty-four (84) kidnapped victims and recovered all the twelve rustled cows. Search parties are still combing the area with a view of arresting the injured bandits and/or recovery of their dead bodies. Investigation is ongoing,” Isah noted.
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