Gunmen kidnapped at least 15 students from a school in Nigeria's northwestern Sokoto state.
from a school in Nigeria’s northwestern Sokoto state in a dawn raid yesterday, the school’s owner and a resident said. This comes days after some 300 students were abducted by a gang in northern Kaduna state.
“They succeeded in abducting 15 of my students, the oldest being 20 and 15, but all the others are below 13,” said Bakuso by phone, adding that a woman had also been kidnapped.Kidnappings at schools in Nigeria were first carried out by jihadist group Boko Haram, which seized more than 200 students from a girls’ school in Chibok in Borno state a decade ago, causing global outrage.
Nigeria’s security forces are stretched fighting an Islamist insurgency in the northeast, leaving vast swathes of land unpoliced and armed gangs to roam freely.
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