Dozens Missing in Nigeria’s Latest School Kidnapping

Dozens of schoolboys and workers were kidnapped by gunmen in northwest Nigeria early Wednesday, in accordance to nearby officers, the newest in a string of large-university abductions that have roiled the northern states of Africa’s most populous place.

The gunmen stormed the Government Science school in Kagara district of Niger condition around two a.m. and confused the university security, killing one particular college student prior to buying pupils and workers to depart their hostels and assemble, in accordance to officers. “The predicament is very serious…Some 27 pupils, 3 workers and 12 customers of their spouse and children were kidnapped,” reported Abubakar Sani Bello, the governor of Niger condition. Regrettably one particular college student was shot useless.”

A photograph shared by the governor’s security officers confirmed the body of a college student on the back again of a pickup truck coated in leaves. There was no speedy claim of accountability.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, criticized for reacting gradually to earlier abductions, dispatched the country’s military services chiefs to coordinate a rescue operation, his spokesman reported.

Shehu Sani, a former senator who researched in Kagara as a boy, reported it was unclear how quite a few folks were missing but that the university was attended by some one,000 pupils.