Bandits, yesterday night, around 9 pm, attacked the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTEC), Osara, Okene in Kogi State in Nigeria and abducted over 50 students, according to the sources.
Sources revealed that the bandits, who came in through the bush, swooped on the university while the students were reading for their upcoming exams.
The terrorists went into three lecture rooms and were indiscriminately shooting into the air to scare the students.
“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 students. But the efforts minimised the damage as the attackers didn’t go beyond the first three halls”, the source said.
According to the source, the students were preparing for their first-semester examination expected to commence on Monday, May 13, when the terrorists struck.
A student, who craved anonymity, said that he and some colleagues ran to the bush and hid there for “more than an hour, adding “We only ventured out when everywhere became quiet.”
The CUSTEC’s authority has confirmed the incident.
