Nigeria abduction: At least 275 pupils missing after gunmen storm school
Al Jazeera
Search and rescue team deployed to find the missing children, mostly aged between eight and 15.
At least 275 pupils are missing after gunmen attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria in the second mass abduction within a week in the country.
Local government officials in Kaduna state confirmed the kidnappings from Kuriga school on Thursday, but didn’t provide figures as were working out how many children had been abducted.
Reporting from the capital, Abuja, on Friday, Al Jazeera’s Fidelis Mbah said school authorities told the state governor that about 25 of the abducted students had been returned to their parents, but 275 remained missing.
A search and rescue team had been deployed to try and rescue the children.
Mbah said that about 175 of those still missing are believed to be between the ages of eight to 15.
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