The students were abducted along Abuja-Kaduna highway on Monday.
Three undergraduates of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, have been rescued by the police from kidnappers.
The students were abducted along Abuja-Kaduna highway on Monday.
Their release was confirmed in statement by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Yakubu Sabo, on Wednesday in Kaduna, the capital.
He added that three other persons were still being held by the kidnappers.
He said, “The Kaduna State Police Command wishes to state that on the said date, August 26, at about 18:50hrs, armed men in military uniform intercepted some commuters near Masari Village along Kaduna-Abuja Expressway, opened fire on the vehicles and kidnapped six persons in the process.
“Due to the prompt response of the police and other security agents to the scene, three people were later released by the hoodlums due to intensive combing within the general area.”
The statement said the three students, alongside the abandoned vehicles at the scene of the incident, were moved to a police station.
Sabo said that efforts were ongoing to free the remaining victims from captivity.