Gunmen attacked a high school in the North and North West of Nigeria before dawn on Monday (November 18). They took over 25 schools and killed at least some staff, authorities said. It is the latest abduction of students in the district. No group is immediately wanted for the kidnapping of the girls from a boarding school in Kebbi State. Furthermore, the gun’s motivation was unclear.
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Police said gunmen took the elderly school children from their dorms at 4 a.m. Monday. The school is located in Maga, Molobi Danko-Wasagu area, said police spokesperson Nafi’u Abubakar Kotarhoshi. The attackers were armed with “professional weapons” and exchanged fire with security guards before abducting the girls, Kotarhoshi said.
“The joint team is currently combing the suspected escape routes and the surrounding forests for search and rescue with the aim of retrieving the kidnapped students and arresting the perpetrators,” said the agency’s spokesperson.
Kotarkoshi said one person was killed and another was injured. However, a resident who said his daughter and granddaughter were abducted in the attack believed that the death toll was two. Police did not return AP calls seeking confirmation of the second death.
“We were told that the attackers entered the school on many motorcycles. They first went straight to the teacher’s house and killed him before killing the guard,” said Abdulkarim Abdullahi Maga.
Kidnapping is nothing new in Nigeria
According to the Associated Press, Nigeria is facing various security challenges, especially from the clear groups of armed Bandits who are famous for kidnapping the Sansoms – sometimes they put thousands of dollars. Groups they have been responsible for several high profile conveyances in the Northern region of Nigeria. Kidnapping, attacks on towns and highways have become common due to limited security. Those bandits are not connected to groups with similar soldiers Boko Haram and the splinter group Islamic State West Africa in the Province. The attacks of the second group on the communities and the installation of the government are motivated by religion.
Hundreds of students have been shocked since 2014
Armed groups have been targeting school children in the region since 2014. In the same year, the Boko Haram Group kidnapped 276 students from Chibok in Borno State. That bearing marked the beginning of a new era of fear. Most live in exile.
Since the chibok tailor, at least 1,500 students have been kidnapped. As mentioned, armed groups simply find in peace a profitable way to support other crimes and the towns controlled by the region of a rich but idiosyncratic country. In March 2024, more than 130 school children were rescued after spending more than two weeks in exile in Nigeria’s Kaduna state.
However, attacks on schools have increased in recent years as national governments have implemented security measures in hot spots, including closing schools for extended periods.
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Associated Press writers OpeTayo and Dyepkazah Shibayan and Freelance reporter Mohammed Ibrahim contributed to this report via AP Newsroom.
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