Gunmen attacked a high school in northwestern Nigeria before dawn on Monday (November 18). They took 25 schoolgirls and killed at least one staff member, authorities said. It’s the latest abduction of students in the region. No group immediately claimed responsibility for abducting the girls from the boarding school in Kebbi state. Additionally, the gunmen’s motivation was unclear.
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More Details About The High School Abduction
Police said gunmen took the boarding schoolgirls from their dorms at 4 a.m. Monday. The school is in Maga, in the state’s Danko-Wasagu area, police spokesperson Nafi’u Abubakar Kotarkoshi said. The assailants were armed with “sophisticated weapons” and exchanged fire with guards before abducting the girls, Kotarkoshi said.
“A combined team is currently combing suspected escape routes and surrounding forests in a coordinated search and rescue operation aimed at recovering the abducted students and arresting the perpetrators,” the spokesperson said.
Kotarkoshi said one person was killed and another was injured. However, a resident who said his daughter and granddaughter were abducted in the raid believes the death toll stands at two. Police did not respond to an AP call seeking confirmation of a second death.
“We were told that the attackers entered the school with many motorcycles. They first went straight to the teacher’s house and killed him before killing the guard,” said Abdulkarim Abdullahi Maga.
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