Reuters
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Gunmen attacked a authorities ladies’ boarding college in Nigeria’s Kebbi State early on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 feminine college students, police mentioned, within the newest mass kidnapping within the nation’s northwest.
The assailants, armed with rifles and reportedly utilizing coordinated ways, stormed Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga city round 4 a.m. native time, partaking police in a gunfight earlier than scaling the perimeter fence and seizing the scholars, police spokesperson Nafiu Abubakar Kotarkoshi mentioned.
Vice Principal Hassan Yakubu Makuku was shot useless whereas resisting the attackers, and one other employees member sustained gunshot accidents, he added.
Police mentioned further tactical models, troopers and native vigilantes have been deployed to comb suspected escape routes and surrounding forests in a search-and-rescue operation.
Northwest Nigeria has witnessed repeated college abductions by armed gangs searching for ransom funds, regardless of authorities pledges to enhance safety within the area. Islamist militant group Boko Haram kidnapped 270 schoolgirls in 2014 within the northeastern city of Chibok. While most of the ladies managed to flee or have been later launched, some have by no means been returned.