Gunmen abducted over 200 pupils from a school in northwest Nigeria, highlighting the country's persistent security challenges.
Gunmen abducted over 200 pupils in northwest Nigeria, marking one of the largest mass abductions in three years.
Kidnappings for ransom are common in Africa’s most populous country, where heavily armed criminal gangs have targeted schools and colleges in the past, especially in the northwest, though such attacks have abated recently. Another local resident Muhammad Adam also told AFP more than 280 have been kidnapped. Two more residents said around 200 were abducted.
Local officials and police did not give any figures for the Kuriga kidnapping. Often figures of those reported kidnapped or missing in Nigeria are lowered after people fleeing the attack return home. Almost all were released for ransom payments after weeks or months spent in captivity in camps hidden in forests that stretch across northwestern states.“Schools should be places of safety, and no child should have to choose between their education and their life,” the rights group said on X, formerly Twitter.“The Nigerian authorities must take measures immediately to prevent attacks on schools, to protect children’s lives and their right to education.
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