Armed gunmen have abducted 140 school students in Nigeria's latest mass kidnapping

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Gunmen kidnapped 140 students from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria on Monday, a school official and police said, in the latest in a wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren and pupils.
Heavily-armed criminal gangs in the northwest and central Nigeria have long plagued villages and highways to loot, steal cattle and abduct for ransom, but since the start of the year have increasingly targeted schools and colleges.
Gunmen opened fire and overpowered security guards after storming the Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna state in the early hours of Monday, police said, before abducting most of the 165 pupils boarding there overnight.

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