GUNMEN Tuesday night reportedly abducted seven off-campus students of the University of Jos (UNIJOS).
The kidnappers numbering about five, reportedly stormed the hostel and broke into the room
where they were reading, forced them into a waiting vehicle and zoomed off.
A student said that the kidnappers sneaked into the hostel and held the seven students hostage at gunpoint for close to thirty minutes before they were forcefully led out of the premises.
Other residents of the hostel, who were aware of the invasion, could not come out until the kidnappers left the scene.
The institution’s representatives visited the off-campus hostel on Wednesday, 14 June for first-hand information. It was also gathered that the kidnappers have started calling their victims’ families for ransom.
Plateau police spokesman, DSP Alfred Alabo, who confirmed the incident, said men of the Command are combing the bush to rescue the students.
Eighteen-Eleven Media