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🇳🇬 Gunmen kidnap 227 pupils from school in Nigeria Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped more than 200 school pupils in the northern town of Kuriga on Thursday, a teacher, local councillor and parents of the missing children said, in the biggest mass abduction from…
🇳🇬 At least 28 Nigerian schoolchildren escape captors
At least 28 of the nearly 300 schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen have escaped, Nigeria's Kaduna state governor has told.
Nigeria's army is leading a search for the children taken in the northern town of Kuriga on Thursday.
Troops are working with police and local search teams to comb the forests within Kaduna and neighbouring states.
Gangs of motorcycle-riding armed men took nearly 300 primary and secondary school children between the ages of eight and 15, school authorities and parents said.
Almost every family in the town is thought to have a child among those kidnapped.
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At least 28 of the nearly 300 schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen have escaped, Nigeria's Kaduna state governor has told.
Nigeria's army is leading a search for the children taken in the northern town of Kuriga on Thursday.
Troops are working with police and local search teams to comb the forests within Kaduna and neighbouring states.
Gangs of motorcycle-riding armed men took nearly 300 primary and secondary school children between the ages of eight and 15, school authorities and parents said.
Almost every family in the town is thought to have a child among those kidnapped.
#Nigeria
@africaintel