Twenty medical students kidnapped in Nigeria

Lagos: Twenty medical students on their way to an annual convention have been kidnapped in eastern Nigeria, police and university sources said Saturda...

Lagos: Twenty medical students on their way to an annual convention have been kidnapped in eastern Nigeria, police and university sources said Saturday.

The Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students said in a statement released Saturday that the students were travelling to the convention in the city of Enugu when they were abducted on Thursday evening.

Fortune Olaye, the secretary general of the Nigerian Medical Students' Association, said that 20 students from the Maiduguri and Jos universities and one doctor travelling with them had been kidnapped.

He said there had been a ransom demand in return for their release.

The kidnapping was also confirmed by Catherine Anene, public relations officer for police in Benue State, where the kidnapping took place.