Gunmen kidnapped ten students from the Federal University of Lafia in Nasarawa State on Thursday.
At around 2 a.m., gunmen invaded a students’ off-campus community in Gandu outside the institution’s permanent location and seized the students, according to reports.
According to our correspondent, the undergraduate students are currently being tested.
According to a local, the assailants shot irregularly, scooping up pupils who attempted to flee their apartment during the onslaught.
“Some of us were lucky to have escaped into the nearby bushes,” she said.
The State Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Nansel Ramhan confirmed the incident but said the information on the development is still sketchy.
“This kidnapping details are sketchy. The command has tried to get facts and identity of the victims but to no avail thus, we are finding it difficult to authenticate,” he stated.
The institution’s Public Relation Officer, Mr. Abubakar Ibrahim, said the inventory of the students affect is being compiled.
He gave the number of those confirmed to have been kidnapped at press time to five.
“It is too early to ascertain the exact number of students because those affected are not living within the school but off campus.
“From available information the number of students abducted is between three to five. However the university is working hard to ensure all students live within the school campus”, he explained.
There has been rising cases of attacks by gunmen around the university communities in recent time.
Early last month, a 300-level student of Sociology Department of the school was shot while a popular business man kidnapped in a raid on the same Gandu community.
Worried by the incessant attacks, Governor Abdullahi Sule promised to beef up security around the institution.