About 200 students of an Islamiyya school located at Tegina in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State have been kidnapped by armed men.
The gunmen, who carried out the operation at about 4:30am on Sunday, also shot dead one person and severely injured another.
The Salihu Tanko Islamiyya school, where the incident took place, was reportedly built by a retired Immigration Officer, and is a conventional school where parents send their children on a daily basis.
Zayyad Mohammed, a resident who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said, “This Islamiyya school is not the usual Sangaya boarding Islamic citadel but an unconventional one where parents send their children on a daily basis for the purpose of acquiring Islamic education.”
The Police Spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, said the armed bandits on board motorcycles in their numbers invaded Tegina town, Rafi LGA shooting indiscriminately.