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Fifteen children had been kidnapped from a school in Nigeria, nearly two days after around 300 students had been taken hostage.
Gunmen invaded the Gidan Bakuso village in Sokoto recount at about 1am (12am UK time) on Saturday, police spokesman Ahmad Rufa’i acknowledged.
The gang seized the children from their hostel before security forces could well near, and additionally abducted one lady from the village.
Mr Rufa’i acknowledged that a police tactical squad was once deployed to stare the students, but added that inaccessible roads in the condo contain hindered the rescue mission.
“It’s village (and) autos can now now not lunge there,” he acknowledged. “They (the police squad) had to consume motorcycles to the village.”
School owner Liman Abubakar Bakuso instructed Reuters that the gunmen sporadically fired shots while in the village and that students ran for duvet in apprehension.
“They succeeded in abducting 15 of my students, the oldest being 20 and 15, but the total others are below 13,” he acknowledged.
“We’re in a recount of apprehension and had been praying laborious for their safe begin.”
Police spokesman Ahmad Rufa’i acknowledged a tactical squad was once deployed to stare the students. Pic: AP / Sunday Alamba
It’s a ways the third mass abduction in the West African nation in decrease than a week, after now now not decrease than 287 school pupils had been taken by gunmen attacking a school.
Locals instructed newshounds that gunmen surrounded the school in Kuriga city around 8am local time on Thursday, stunning as classes had been about to inaugurate.
“We are able to guarantee that every child will attain encourage,” Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna recount, instructed villagers on Thursday. “We’re working with the safety agencies.”
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Nigerian gunmen abduct 287 students
On 6 March, a neighborhood suspected to be Islamist insurgents abducted 50 of us, mostly ladies, in the distant Gamboru condo – on the border with Chad and Cameroon.
No neighborhood claimed accountability for any of the abductions.
On Saturday, Nigeria’s vice president Kashim Shettima met with some of us of the abducted Kuriga students, and warranted them of efforts to find and rescue the children.
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A ladies prays for the kidnapped LEA Main and Secondary School students in Kuriga, Kaduna recount. Pic: AP
Basically the most modern kidnapping additionally comes a decade after participants of the Islamist militant neighborhood Boko Haram abducted 276 feminine students in an evening-time attack.
According to Amnesty International, greater than 90 of the kidnapped students are tranquil missing after being taken from a government secondary school in the Borno recount city of Chibokare.
Some 1,500 students had been kidnapped in raids since 2014. In most modern years, the abductions had been concentrated in northwestern and central areas, the keep dozens of armed groups in most cases purpose villagers and travellers for immense ransoms.
