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The school is about 15 kilometres from the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna.
Mohammed Jalige, police spokesman in the state, confirmed the incident to TheCable, and said efforts are ongoing to rescue the students.
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“The gunmen stormed the school around 3 am, and abducted a couple of the students. The police have deployed its operatives in the bush to trace them,” he said.
The attack is the latest in a series of the abduction of students and pupils by bandits operating across northern Nigeria.
In 2021, there have been two cases of the
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TheCable found that more than 1,100 children have been taken hostage from their schools in such attacks in the last seven years.