Gunmen, according to State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, have killed a student and abducted 27 other children in a night-time raid on their boarding school in north-central Nigeria.
He added that three members of staff and 12 relatives were also abducted.
In the Principal’s report, about 600 boys were asleep in their dormitories when the school in Kagara town in Nija state was raided.
However, security forces have been deployed to help with rescue operations, although the motive for the attack is still unclear.
In the latest attack, the gunmen wore military uniforms and stormed the state-run boarding school for boys in huge numbers, before taking students into a nearby forest, the AFP news agency quoted an unnamed security source and an official as saying.
Troops with aerial support were trying to track down the attackers, AFP quoted the security source as saying.
Mr. Ubaidu told the BBC that some of the children had managed to flee into nearby bushes and were now returning.
Source: bbc.com
![Photo of [OPINION]: Ghana’s COVID-19 Death Statistics, Peter Twumasi Writes](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/WhatsApp-Image-2021-02-17-at-9.30.18-AM-390x220.jpeg)
