- Police rescues 84 Hizburrahim Islamiyya students, 3 teachers abducted Saturday night in Katsina State
Five soldiers were killed on Saturday when gunmen believed to be members of the Boko Haram terrorists ambushed a Nigerian Army in Northeast State of Borno State.
The ambush came a day after the reinvigorated Boko Haram terrorists shot dead a women and abducted 35 passengers along the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway.
A source said the terrorists in military camouflage mounted barricades at Kondiri village near Jakana town in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State around 5pm on Friday, stopping passengers travelling by a bus, Toyota model and two cars before taking them.
Also, the same Friday, a lone suicide bomber killed three persons and seriously injured one when she detonated explosives strapped around her body at a crowded place in Konduga town of Borno State.
More than 30, 000 people have been reportedly killed by the insurgents since 2009 while not fewer than eleven vicious attacks have been carried by the group in the year 2020 alone.
On 28 November 2020, about 110 rice farmers in Zabarmari, were killed by the Boko Haram militants while the factional leader of the group, Abubakar Shekau, in an audio message ‘claimed’ responsibility for the recent abduction of 330 students of Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State.
On Sunday morning, the Katsina State Police Command said they successfully rescued 84 Hizburrahim Islamiyya students and three who were abducted by bandits on Saturday night.
The now freed students were from the Islamiyya School in Dandume Local Government Area of Katsina and were abducted on their way back from Maulud celebrations at a village called Unguwar Alkasim.
Saying they were rescued after a gun duel with the abductors, Spokesperson of the Katsina Police Command, Mr Gambo Isah, said in a statement that the Command received a distress call at about 10pm Saturday that some students of Hizburrahim Islamiyya, Mahuta had been abducted.
Upon receipt of the report, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) led operations Puff Adder, Sharan Daji and a Vigilante group to the area and engaged the bandits into a fierce gun duel.
According to the statement: “Subsequently, the teams succeeded in dislodging the bandits and rescued all the 84 kidnapped victims and recovered all the twelves rustled cows.”
