Bombs preventing rescue of kidnapped youths, Nigerian police say

Police Commissioner Audu Bosso said drones helped locate the camp where the prospective National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members were taken after being abducted last week in the south-eastern Imo state.

Nigerian police say they have located a camp where 19 national youth service recruits are being held by gunmen but cannot move in as they believe the place is mined with explosives.

Participants, known as corps members, are posted to different parts of the country to work and take part in community service, as well as to foster a sense of national unity.