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Gunmen kidnapped 25 women from a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State and killed at the very least one staffer, authorities stated Monday.
The schoolgirls had been taken round 4 a.m. and no group instantly claimed accountability for the incident.
Police spokesperson Nafi’u Abubakar Kotarkoshi told The Associated Press the gunmen had “refined weapons” and exchanged hearth with guards earlier than abducting the ladies.
“A mixed staff is presently combing suspected escape routes and surrounding forests in a coordinated search and rescue operation aimed toward recovering the kidnapped college students and arresting the perpetrators,” he stated, including that one particular person was killed and one other was injured.
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A lady seems to be on as she walks previous a classroom in Shehu Kangiwa Mannequin Main Faculty in Argungu, Kebbi State, in northern Nigeria on April 12, 2025. (Leslie Fauvel / AFP through Getty Photographs)
Abdulkarim Abdullahi Maga, a resident who stated his daughter and granddaughter had been kidnapped within the raid, advised the AP that the attackers entered the varsity with bikes.
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“They first went straight to the trainer’s home and killed him earlier than killing the guard,” stated Maga.
The most recent abductions come amid a string of mass kidnappings in northern Nigeria in recent times.
In 2024, 280 students were abducted from a college in Kaduna State and at the very least 200 others, largely internally displaced girls and youngsters, had been kidnapped in Borno State whereas reportedly trying to find firewood, in response to the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk.
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Greater than 200 schoolgirls had been kidnapped from a Chibok secondary school in 2014 by Boko Haram militants, sparking worldwide outrage and a #BringBackOurGirls marketing campaign.
