Nigeria police working to secure release of 20 kidnapped medical students
Al Jazeera
Nigerian Medical Association says students from universities of Jos and Maiduguri were taken while travelling in Benue.
Nigerian police and security agencies are working to secure the release of 20 medical students who were kidnapped in the eastern part of the country, officials say.
The medical students were on their way to an annual convention when they were abducted in Benue State on Thursday evening, police and university sources said on Saturday.
The Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students said in a statement that the students were travelling to the convention in the city of Enugu when they were taken.
Fortune Olaye, the secretary-general of the Nigerian Medical Students’ Association, said 20 medical students from two universities, as well as one doctor travelling with them, had been kidnapped.
It added that there had been a ransom demand in return for their release.
