The Nasarawa Police Command has confirmed the abduction of scores of pupils of the LGEA Primary School, Alwaza, in Alwaza community, Doma LGA of Nasarawa State, by gunmen suspected to be bandits.
The Quest Times gathered that the incident happened in the early hours of Friday.
The gunmen were said to have laid siege to the school, while the children were reporting to school.
The whereabouts of the pupils and their abductors is unknown at the time of filing this report.
The Police Public Relation Officer, Nasarawa State Command, DSP Rahman Nansel, while confirming the incident, said that a joint team of Police, military and vigilante has been mobilised and are on the trail of the abductors, who are reported to be on motorcycles.