KADUNA, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped six schoolgirls
and two staff members from a boarding school in northern Nigeria
on Thursday, police said.
Police said the girls and staff were taken in the early
morning from a school called Engravers College in a remote area
near the village of Kakau Daji in Kaduna state.
It was not immediately clear who had taken them. While the
militant Islamist group Boko Haram and a branch of Islamic State
are active in northern Nigeria, kidnappings by other armed
groups are also rampant — mostly for ransom.
"The command is doing everything possible to secure the
release of all the victims unhurt," a police statement said.
About 100 of the more than 270 schoolgirls abducted by Boko
Haram from the town of Chibok in 2014 remain in captivity. Last
week, police in the city of Kaduna freed hundreds of men and
boys from a purported Islamic school where they had been beaten
and abused.