Armed men have kidnapped two female students of the Federal University, Gusau in Zamfara State.
The police spokesman for the Zamfara State Police Command, Mohammed Shehu, in a statement, explained that the victims were kidnapped on early Sunday morning at Sabon Gida village of Bungudu Local Government Area.
Shehu, who did simply identify the students as Maryam and Zainab, disclosed that a group of armed men attacked the victims’ rented hostel around 1.00am on Sunday.
However, he said the state Commissioner of Police, Kolo Yusuf, had delpoyed a police tactical team to rescue the victims and arrest the bandits.
The police spokesman assured assured the families of the victims and the management of the university that the abducted students would be rescued unhurt.
The statement read: “Information received by the Command indicated that, On 2nd April, 2023 at about 0100am, armed bandits stormed sabon gida village in Bungudu LGA and broke into a rented female hostel of the university where they locked up the two (2) civilian guards and dispossessed them of their handsets and later abducted two (2) female student of Microbiology Department of the university.
“On receipt of the report, the police tactical team moved to the scene, saying that already the hoodlums had fled with the victims to an unknown destination.”
