BY FOLASHADE KEHINDE
ONE of the abducted students of Greenfield University, Kaduna, Dorothy Yohanna, who was killed by her abductors, has been laid to rest.
Dorothy was among the first three students found dead at a village near the school, a few days after 20 of them were abducted from their school, in Chikun Local Government Area.
Tears flowed freely as the Evangelical Church Winning All buried the slain student on Wednesday.
Recall that two more students were killed after being kidnapped with others last week by gunmen in Kaduna, authorities said on Monday, bringing the death toll from the attack to six.
The killings in Kaduna State by criminals known locally as “bandits” mark an escalation in the mass kidnappings of students that plague northwest and central Nigeria.
“Security agencies have just reported to the Kaduna State Government the recovery of two more dead bodies of Greenfield University students, killed by armed bandits,” state commissioner Samuel Aruwan said Monday.
Gunmen attacked the private Greenfield University last Tuesday in what was the fifth known attack on a school or college since December.
A member of the school staff was killed during the assault and the bodies of three students were later discovered in a nearby village.
Two university staff told AFP that 20 students along with three non-academic staff had been kidnapped but state officials could not confirm those numbers, saying only that “an unspecified number” were taken.
