SOKOTO — Bandits on Monday attacked a car carrying 12 passengers from Goronyo to Sokoto, killing the driver and a polytechnic student and abducting some of the passengers. The student, Sadik Abdullahi, was in his final year of the National Diploma in Building Engineering at Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto, less than two months from graduation. Residents of nearby villages described the attack to Daily Trust, and three passengers who escaped were treated at a local hospital. The Sokoto State Police Command spokesman, DSP Ahmad Rufai, confirmed that two people were killed but did not give the number of those abducted.