Abducted Zamfara university students rescued by troops, says Army
The abducted students of the Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State, have been rescued by soldiers attached to Operation Hadarin Daji after a gun duel with terrorists Sunday morning, with two of the students escaped during the crossfire.
Penpushing reports that the spokesperson for the 1 Brigade Nigerian Army in Gusau, Captain Ibrahim Yahaya, said in a statement that the soldiers responded swiftly after receiving reports of the abduction by blocking the route the terrorists were to follow.
The students were abducted on Saturday when terrorists stormed off-campus hostels in Sabon Garin Damba, Gusau, and took away four students, a development which was was the second time the terrorists would be attacking the university’s off-campus hostels in less than 30 days.
Penpushing further reports that the spokesperson for the 1 Brigade Nigerian Army in Gusau explained that two of the students were rescued by the military, adding that other two escaped on their own during the shoot-out, while the terrorists ran into the soldiers while taking the students to their den through the route.
‘This was achieved as the troops responded swiftly to distress calls on the kidnapped students by terrorists. Troops immediately mobilised and formed a blocking position at a possible withdrawal route which led to a heavy gun duel with the terrorists’, he stated.
‘Troops’ superiority forced the terrorists to abandon the victims and fled. During the encounter with the terrorists around 12 a.m., two of the students were able to escape while other two students – a male and a female – were safely rescued by the troops’, Ibrahim added
Penpushing also reports that as at the time of filing this report the spokesperson for the 1 Brigade Nigerian Army in Gusau didn’t say if any casualty was recorded by any of the sides in the crossfire encounter.
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