ABUJA, Nigeria — Gunmen attacked a highschool in northwestern Nigeria earlier than daybreak on Monday and kidnapped 25 schoolgirls, police stated. One staffer on the college was killed and one other was wounded in what was the most recent incident of college abductions in Nigeria’s northern area.
No group has claimed accountability for the abductions from the boarding college in Kebbi state.
The incident occurred at 4:00 a.m., in keeping with police, which stated the women have been kidnapped from the dorms. The boarding college is in Maga, within the state’s Danko-Wasagu space, in keeping with police spokesperson Nafi’u Abubakar Kotarkoshi.
The assailants have been armed with “subtle weapons” and exchanged fireplace with guards earlier than abducting the women, Kotarkoshi stated.
“A mixed staff is at the moment combing suspected escape routes and surrounding forests in a coordinated search and rescue operation geared toward recovering the kidnapped college students and arresting the perpetrators,” the police spokesperson stated.
That is the most recent college abduction in Nigeria’s northern area, the place armed teams have focused college youngsters since 2014, when Boko Haram kidnapped 276 college students from Chibok in Borno state.
Abductions by armed teams are frequent in Nigeria’s northern area, the place the navy has been battling an uptick in assaults by totally different armed teams this yr.
