Boko Haram claims abduction of hundreds of schoolboys in north-west Nigeria

Boko Haram claims abduction of hundreds of schoolboys in north-west Nigeria
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15/12/2020 - 17:42
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau seen in a 2018 video Handout BOKO HARAM/AFP/File
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The Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of more than 300 schoolboys in north-western Nigeria, after their school was attacked last Friday. 
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At least 333 pupils from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School near rural Kankara town in Katsina state are still missing.
"Our brothers are behind the kidnapping in Katsina," said a voice message by a man claiming to be Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram.

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