File photo of empty classroom courtesy of DailyTrust
Gunmen have stormed Community High School, Ahoro-Esinele in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, shooting a teacher and whisking away the school principal, Mrs Rachael Alamu, along with some students.
A report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quoted a source as disclosing that the attackers invaded the community on Friday at around 8.00 a.m.
It quoted the source as saying that the gunmen fled the scene with the principal’s vehicle and escaped with the abductees into a forest reserve bordering the community.
Already, the Oyo State Commissioner of Police (CP), Abimbola Olugbenga, is said to be heading to Ahoro-Esinele to spearhead rescue operations.
The command’s spokesman, DSP Ayanlade Olayinka, disclosed this in a statement issued in Ibadan.
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Olayinka said the number of residents abducted was, however, yet to be ascertained.
“There was an attack, and the Commissioner of Police is on his way to the scene; details soon, please,” he said.
News Express reports that this is the second case of school abduction to have taken place today. As earlier reported, an unspecified number of students of Mussa Primary and Junior Secondary School in Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State were abducted when some armed members of Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists invaded their school premises in the early hours of the day.
