Police in north-west Nigeria have launched a search and rescue operation for two female students who’ve been abducted from a university hostel in Zamfara state.
They said an armed gang broke into the private hostel in Gusau and locked up two guards before kidnapping the students.
The incident has heightened fears of insecurity in Zamfara which has in the past seen numerous kidnappings for ransom.
In February last year gunmen abducted almost three hundred female students from a boarding school in Zamfara.
They were released after several days in captivity. In August fifteen students and four members of staff were seized from an agriculture
Source:Fiilafmonline/BBC
