June 11, 2021

One student was killed and at least 10 persons kidnapped when gunmen raided a school in northern Nigeria, an official in Kaduna said on Friday.

The gunmen attacked the main campus of the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic #Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic

in Zaria, Kaduna state, late on Thursday, shooting sporadically and abducting two lecturers and eight students, according to Samuel Aruwan, the state’s commissioner of internal security.

Two students were shot, one fatally, while the other was being treated in hospital, Aruwan said.

According to Channels Television, Aruwan disclosed that one student who was shot died on the spot.