Admin l Tuesday, July 06, 2021
KADUNA, Nigeria – We have a total of 121 students in our custody, the heavily armed bandits who stormed Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, Kaduna have said. The kidnappers made the confirmation when they called proprietors of the school earlier today.
President Kaduna Baptist Conference and Proprietor of Bethel Baptist High school, Kaduna Rev. Yahaya Jangado who was speaking at meeting in Kaduna said
the kidnappers called and allowed the school management to speak with a few of the abductees but that they are yet to demand any ransom.
Narrating how the kidnapping occurred, he said management of the school alerted security agencies as soon as the bandits arrived. He said the soldiers upon arrival engaged the bandits in a gun battle that led to the death of two soldiers.
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“For now, we know that we have 154 students in the school hostel and yesterday (Monday) after the exchange of fire between the soldiers and the bandits. We came to the school and recovered 28 students, some of them hid in many places. Some of them in the course of taking them away, they escaped and they came back to the school.
“So the total number of students we recovered yesterday (Monday) were 28 and today (Tuesday) by the grace of God we had a call from the bandits and they assured us that our children are well and doing okay. In fact we had the privilege of speaking with few of them”, he said, adding that the bandits counted the students in jungle where they are being kept.
