The Nasarawa State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has verified the invasion of a community in the state’s Keffi Local Government Area by gunmen, who kidnapped and took four students from the state’s university to an unknown destination.

DSP Ramhan Nansel, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the event, explaining that the pupils were abducted in the early hours of Tuesday near Angwan Ka’are in the LGA.

He did, however, say that the Commissioner of Police, Maiyaki Baba, has launched a manhunt for the perpetrators in order to save the victims’ lives.

Meanwhile, the names of the kidnapped students were discovered: Rahila Hanya, a 100-level student in the Science Laboratory Technology department; Josephine Gershon, a 100-level student in Computer Science; Rosemary Samuel, a 100-level student in Business Administration; and Goodness Samuel, a 100-level student in Geography.