Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
Two parents of the kidnapped students of St. Mary Catholic Missionary School in Papiri, Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State have reportedly died of heart attack.
This is coming barely one week after gunmen stormed the school and abducted 303 students and 12 staff in a midnight attack.
Fifty of the students were said to have escaped from the bandits at a river bank where they were being ferried across in batches and have reunited with their families.
However, 253 others, including 12 staff are still being held captive by the bandits and there is no details about their rescue yet.
Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Catholic Bishop of Kontagora Diocese, Most Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna who is also the proprietor of the school, confirmed the tragic death of the parents in a statement yesterday by his media aide, Dan Atori.
Bishop Yohanna gave the name of one of the deceased parents as Anthony Musa, while details about the second deceased parent were not known as of the time of filing this report.
“The man, Anthony Musa, died of heart attack but the female, we don’t have the details yet because we couldn’t get the family,” the statement said.