Bandits abduct scores of children in Zamfara. 

Bandits Friday stormed Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State and abducted over 80 children .

The children, between the ages of 12 and 17 were in the bush fetching firewood as early as 8 o’clock in the morning when the bandits rounded them up and took them into the forest , The BBC Hausa service said.

Zamfara State has lately become a den of bandits and other criminal elements who specialise in kidnapping for ransom .