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Armed bandits raid Nigerian school, police hunt for missing students

Published 12/12/2020, 14:30
Updated 12/12/2020, 14:36
© Reuters.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Bandits armed with
assault rifles attacked a secondary school in Nigeria's
northwestern Katsina state late on Friday, police said, and two
local people told Reuters hundreds of students were missing.
The gunmen stormed the Government Science secondary school
in Kankara district at about 9.40 p.m., and police at the scene
returned fire, allowing some students to run for safety, police
spokesman Gambo Isah said in a statement.
Police said they were working with the army and air force to
determine how many pupils were missing or kidnapped, and to find
them. One officer was shot and wounded in the exchange of fire
with the gang, they said.
There were chaotic scenes at the school on Saturday as
desperate parents and security personnel gathered to search for
roughly half of the school's 800 students who were still
missing, one parent and a school employee told Reuters.
Katsina, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, is
plagued by violent bandits who regularly attack locals and
kidnap for ransom. Attacks by Islamist militants are common in
northeastern parts of the country.
Violence and insecurity across Nigeria have enraged
citizens, particularly after scores of farmers were killed, some
beheaded, by Islamist militants in northeast Borno state late
last month. Buhari, who arrived on Friday for a week in his home village
some 200 km (125 miles) from Kankara, was scheduled to brief the
national assembly on the security situation last week, but
cancelled the appearance without official explanation.

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