Kidnappers who abducted more than 100 students from a school in the Nigerian state of Kaduna have warned that children could starve to death if parents do not provide food, Reuters reported, citing parents and the Kaduna Baptist Conference.
The head of the Baptist Conference in Kaduna said that about 125 students were unknown, and at least 28 were back with their families after the attack on the Bethel Baptist High School was carried out earlier this week, BTA reported.
This is the tenth mass abduction of students in northwestern Nigeria since December.
Parents of the unknown children said the kidnappers had promised that the children would be safe if the parents supplied rice, beans, palm oil, salt and rusks. They said the kidnappers had told them that a ransom would then be demanded.
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