In broad daylight this morning, bandits stormed a LEA Primary School in Rama village of Birnin-Gwari local government area of Kaduna State, whisking away yet to be ascertained number of teachers and pupils.

It was gathered that, the incident occurred around 8:45am when the pupils were just leaving the assembly ground to their classes.

Kaduna State government confirmed the incident, saying that, it was still putting together the actual number of pupils and teachers reported to have been kidnapped.

A resident of Birnin-Gwari, Malam Usman Abdullahi said the bandits who stormed the school on about 20 motorcycles and carried the victims away immediately.

According to him, it is unknown how many people were taken away as only two teachers have been confirmed to be among the victims while nothing is known yet about the pupils and their identities.