Six hundred and sixty-eight students of the Government Secondary School Kankara, Katsina State, are still missing, the school’s register has shown.
Daily Trust reported that at the time of the incident, the school had 1,074 students in both its Junior and Senior Secondary sections in session.
The newspaper quoted a source in the school to have said, “in the junior section, there are six classes, comprising JSS 1A, which has 58 students, 1B, which has 62 students and 1C, which has 64 students; JSS 2A has 74 students, 2B has 79 students and 2C has 75 students.
“As for the senior section, we have seven classes, which include SS1A, 97; 1B, 108; 1C, 106 and 1D, 118. While in SS2, we have 2A, 74; 2B, 79 and 2C, 80, giving a total of 1074 students.”
The source added that both SS3 and JSS 3 students had completed their exams, hence they were not in school during the attack.
Accirding to Daily Trust, 270 students were rescued from the school on the night of the attack.
It said that with the number of those who returned from the bush the following night or those who were reported to have gone home by their parents, the number of those found rose to 406 as of Sunday morning.
However, the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, had said on Sunday that 333 students were still missing as against 668 found by Daily Trust during interactions with sources in the school.
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