3 Killed, Many Students Kidnapped in Nigeria's Zamfara State 

ABUJA - Gunmen in Nigeria have killed at least three people and abducted 20 including students and staff from an agricultural college in Northwest Zamfara state. 

School officials say those taken include fifteen male students, and four other people. However, authorities on Monday said two staff members and one of the kidnapped students escaped and returned to the school.  They were kidnapped on Sunday night from the College of Agriculture in Bakura, Zamfara state, after armed men opened fire and killed the school's security guards.    The Zamfara state police command has yet to make an official statement.   This is the latest in the spate of kidnap-for-ransom attacks devastating schools in Northern Nigeria.