ABUJA (Reuters) – Gunmen kidnapped 4 members of workers and their youngsters from the College of Abuja on Tuesday, the college mentioned, in a uncommon kidnapping at such a big establishment within the Nigerian capital.
Gangs of armed males, recognized domestically as bandits, late final 12 months launched a collection of abductions from colleges and assaults on villages, largely within the northwest of the nation, in return for ransom.
There have been kidnappings of people on the outskirts of Abuja, however assaults on universities are uncommon.
“Suspected bandits attacked the workers quarters of the college within the early hours of right this moment. We have now report that 4 of our workers and their youngsters have been, nonetheless, kidnapped,” the college mentioned on its Fb web page.
A supply on the college instructed Reuters that one workers member was taken collectively along with his son and daughter.
Nigeria’s safety forces are stretched on a number of fronts, together with rising lawlessness within the north and northwest and a 12-year Islamist insurgency within the northeast that has killed 1000’s.
(Reporting by Abraham Archiga and Felix Onuah in Abuja and Tife Owolabi in Yenagoa, writing by MacDonald Dzirutwe, Modifying by Nick Macfie)
