Katsina State Police Command, says Bandits in their numbers, shooting sporadically with AK 47 rifles, attacked Government Science secondary school, Kankara.

The command says policemen on duty also responded to the attack and engaged them in a gun duel which gave the students opportunity to scaled the fence of the school and ran for safety.

According to Police Public Relations Officer, Gambo Isah, the DPO reinforced the policemen on duty with Armoured Personnel Carrier, which forced the hoodlums to retreat back into the forest.

Isah, a Superintendent of Police, said one Inspector sustained a gunshot wound and was taken to the hospital and is responding to treatment.

He said in the course of investigation, the DPO rescued over two hundred students back into the school compound.

In his word, the police, Nigerian Army, and Nigerian Air Force are working closely with the school authorities to ascertain the actual number of the missing and/or kidnapped students while search parties are assidiously working with a view to find and/or rescue the missing students.

He said It will be too early to say at this particular moment the actual number of students that have been kidnapped or missing.