The corpse of a 22-year-old student of the Kano State University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil, Ahmed Abubakar Idris, have been found five days after he was declared missing from school.
According to reports, Idris, who was a 300-level student of the Department of Physics and a resident of Abuja, went missing on Saturday when he went to a GSM market in Kano (Farm Centre) to purchase a mobile phone.
His corpse was however discovered at a sand excavation site in Mariri at the outskirts of Kano City after police investigation linked one of his colleagues who was with him before he died.
Confirming the development, the police public relations officer, Kano command, Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said two suspects have been arrested.
According to Kiyawa, the commissioner of police in the state, CP Sama’ila Dikko, had ordered the case to be transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department, Bompai for further action.
