Some gunmen suspected to be suspected to be bandits on Thursday night invaded the Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, Okene in Kogi State and abducted some students.
According to reports the bandits swooped on the university around 9pm while the students were reading for their upcoming exams.
The reports said the bandits came in through the bush, went into three lecture halls and began to shoot into the air to scare the students.
They trapped the students inside the halls and started taking them; the school was thrown into total confusion as fear-stricken students in other halls scurried to safety, scampering in various directions.
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By the time local security guards and the conventional security men at the gate engaged the bandits, they had already succeeded in abducting some students.
According to the source, the students were preparing for their first-semester examination expected to commence on Monday, May 13, when the bandits struck.
A student, who craved anonymity, said that he and some colleagues ran to the bush and hid there for “more than an hour”.
Like in several parts of the country, abduction for ransom is the new normal. In February, gunmen reportedly kidnapped nine travellers in Oshokoshoko, along the Kabba/Obajana/Lokoja Road in Kogi State.
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