Dozens kidnapped from Islamic school in northern Nigeria
Al Jazeera
State government says about 200 children were in the school when gunmen on motorbikes attacked.
An armed gang abducted dozens of students from an Islamic school in the northcentral Nigerian state of Niger on Sunday, police and state government officials said. Some 200 children were at the school at the time of Sunday’s attack, the Niger state government said on Twitter, adding that “an unconfirmed number” had been taken. The abduction came a day after 14 students from a university in northwestern Nigeria were freed, having spent 40 days in captivity.
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