About 140 boarding school students from Bethel Baptist School in Kaduna were on Monday, 5 July 2021 abducted by gunmen. According to the report, a large group of gunmen arrived on motorbikes, broke down the school fence and abducted the students in the middle of the night. Also, not less than eight people, including two nurses and a 12-month-old child, were kidnapped on Sunday, 4 July 2021 from the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Centre in Zaria. In northern Nigeria, there has been an increase in abductions of school children for ransom by bandits.
Source: Viewers Corner News.