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Gunmen kidnapped students and staff from a school in Nigeria, the second attack of its kind in recent months, a presidential spokesman said.
The criminals abducted a “yet to be ascertained†number of people from a boys’ school in Kagara in Nigeria’s central Niger state, President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, said in an emailed statement. Hundreds of students were taken in the attack, Agence France-Presse reported, citing an unidentified government
official.
The kidnapping, which took place about 150 miles (241 kilometers) northwest of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, follows a similar attack on another school in December, when 344 pupils were abducted. They were all released within a week.
Buhari directed the security forces to “ensure the immediate and safe return of all the captives,†according to Shehu.