BREAKING: Many students feared kidnapped as terrorists attack Kogi varsity

Many students are feared abducted as some terrorists on Thursday night invaded the Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, Okene in Kogi State. 

According to reports, the bandits swooped on the university around 9pm while the undergraduates were reading for their upcoming exams.

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“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.

“By the time local security guards and the conventional security men at the gate engaged the bandits, they had already succeeded in abducting some of them.

“But the efforts minimised the damage as the attackers didn’t go beyond the first three halls,” the Punch newspaper’s source said.

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A student, who craved anonymity, said that he and some colleagues ran to the bush and hid there for “more than an hour”.

Contacted, CUSTEC Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdulraman Asipita, confirmed the incident but refused to give details of the number of students abducted.