More Than 300 Schoolgirls Kidnapped By Gunmen In Nigeria
Armed groups in the region are known to kidnap people for money and for the release of their members from jail.
Sam Olukoya
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation.
Police and the military have begun joint operations to rescue the girls after the attack at the Girls Science Secondary School in Jangebe town, according to a police spokesman in Zamfara state, Mohammed Shehu, who confirmed the number abducted.