Gunmen abducted 25 students and killed a staff member in a pre-dawn raid on a girls’ secondary school in Nigeria’s Kebbi state on Monday, police said. The attack, blamed on armed bandit gangs, is the latest in a series of mass schoolc kidnappings that have plagued northern Nigeria for over a decade.Gunmen from a criminal gang kidnapped 25 people and killed a staff member in an early morning raid on a northwestern Nigerian girls’ secondary school on Monday, police said.
No organisation has yet stepped forward to claim responsibility for the abductions from the boarding establishment in Kebbi state. Police confirmed the assault occurred at 4am local time, with the girls being seized from their dormitories.
The boarding institution is located in Maga, within the state’s Danko-Wasagu district, according to police spokesman Nafi’u Abubakar Kotarkoshi. The raiders carried “sophisticated weapons” and engaged in gunfire with security personnel before making off with the pupils, Kotarkoshi revealed.
Police confirmed the assault occurred at 4am local time (stock)(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
