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Abductors Of Bethel Baptist School Students Demand N60m Ransom

The abductors of the 121 students of Bethel Baptist Secondary school in  Kaduna State are demanding the sum of N60 million as ransom before they will release the students.


A combination of file photos of the map of Kaduna State and a gun recovered from crime suspects.
A combination of file photos of the map of Kaduna State and a gun recovered from crime suspects.

 

The abductors of the 121 students of Bethel Baptist Secondary school in  Kaduna State are demanding the sum of N60 million as ransom before they will release the students.

The father of one of the kidnapped students confirmed the development to Channels Television.

He added that the bandits have also given them till next week Monday as the deadline for payment of the ransom.

He disclosed that after much negotiations, the bandits pegged the sum of N500,000 as a ransom for each student before they will be released.

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Bandits suspected to be kidnappers had on July 8 attacked Bethel Baptist Secondary school in Chikun Local Government Area of the state and abducted 121 students from their hostels.

Last week, they released one of the students who fell sick in their custody along with two other people who were kidnapped along the Kaduna-Kachia road.

They were later rescued inside the forest by operatives of the Kaduna state police command.