Mass kidnappings of Nigerian students leave parents in shock and despair
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Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300 students abducted from their school in Nigeria’s conflict-battered northwest. She was still in
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Nigeria police say 15 school children were kidnapped, days after armed gunmen abducted nearly 300
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Mass kidnappings of Nigerian students leave parents in shock and despair
Locals told The Associated Press the assailants surrounded the government-owned school in Kaduna State's Kuriga town on Thursday morning just as the pupils were about to start the school day.
A school headteacher in northwestern Nigeria says gunmen who attacked the school abducted 287 students as they were about to start classes. It marks the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week.
ABUJA, Nigeria — Gunmen attacked a primary school in Nigeria’s northwest region on Thursday morning and abducted at least 100 pupils as they were about to start the school day, local residents and authorities told The Associated Press.
At least 287 school children, some as young as eight years old, are being held by gunmen who raided their school in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna State early Thursday.
Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria’s northwest region Thursday and abducted at least 287 students, the headteacher told authorities, marking the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week.
Armed men abducted hundreds of children from an elementary school in northern Nigeria, triggering a new security challenge in the West African nation that is dealing with a cost-of-living crisis.
A teacher and a local resident have confimed what is one of the country's worst mass abduction. Kidnappings for a ransom are frequent in Africa's most populous country.
Police in Nigeria say armed men have broken into a school in northwestern Nigeria and abducted 15 children. The attack came at about 1 a.m. local time Saturday — about 48 hours after nearly 300 students were seized in a different part of the conflict-hit region.
Militants armed with AK-47s attacked a school in Kaduna state, Nigeria, kidnapping at least 287 students, marking the second large-scale abduction in Nigeria within a week and underscoring a deepening security crisis in the region.
Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300 students abducted from their school in Nigeria’s conflict-battered northwest. She was still in
KURIGA, Nigeria (AP) — Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300 students abducted from their school in Nigeria’s conflict-battered northwest. More than two days after her children — ages 7 to 18 — went to school in remote Kuriga town only to be herded aw…
The pupils were snatched from an Islamic school in the northwest, where gunmen have adopted the tactic to extract ransoms. This comes days after almost 300 students were kidnapped in a region nearby.
KURIGA, Nigeria (AP) — Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300 students abducted from their school in Nigeria’s conflict-battered northwest. More than two days after her children — ages 7 to 18 — went to school in remote Kuriga town only to be herded aw…
