Three children were found dead after abducting 94 students and eight teachers in northwestern Nigeria last Thursday, the school’s director said yesterday.
The military said in a statement that it had rescued three teachers and eight students so far, killing one of the abductors.
Two girls and a boy were found dead, two with gunshot wounds to the legs, said Mustafa Yusuf, director of the federal public high school in the isolated town of Birinin Yuri in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kembi.
He added that the kidnappers were using the students’ telephones to call parents asking for a ransom of 60 million nairas ($ 146,341).
Thursday’s mass kidnapping was the third in schools in northwestern Nigeria in as many weeks. Gunmen have abducted nearly 900 pupils and students from their schools in the area since December to ransom them.
