A Nigerian government boarding school for girls in Kebbi State, situated in the country’s northwest, was attacked by gunmen on Monday, in which 25 female students abducted in the latest mass kidnapping in the country.
They stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga town early morning, engaging police in a gunfight before scaling the perimeter fence and seizing the students. Vice Principal Hassan Yakubu Makuku was shot dead while resisting the attackers.
The Nigerian military, police tactical units and local vigilantes have been deployed in the area to track the armed gangs in a bid to rescue the abducted girls.
Northwest Nigeria has witnessed repeated school abductions by bandits seeking ransom payments, despite government pledges to improve security in the northern regions of the country.
Islamist militant group Boko Haram kidnapped 270 schoolgirls in 2014 in the north eastern town of Chibok. Despite many of the kidnapped girls escaping their abductors or released, some have never been found or returned.
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