One persona killed and a few injured as unknown gunmen carried out a kidnap operation and abducted about 150 children of an Islamic school in Nigeria's Niger state.
The Salihu Tanko Islamic School is located at Tegina in the Rafi Local Government Area of the north-central Nigerian state of Niger.
According to the sources the kidnapping was carried out at 4:30 pm (local time) on Sunday.Watch: Nigeria's growing kidnapping industry, hundreds have been killed
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On Thursday night, gunmen stormed the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in the Kaduna state, which lies in the northern Nigeria
A video emerged from Nigeria showing college students that were kidnapped being prodded by the abductors while the students beg for their lives. The video, which first popped up on March 13 showed girls cowering on the floor in a forest, while armed abductors hit them with sticks.
On Thursday night, gunmen stormed the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in the Kaduna state, which lies in the northern Nigeria. In the aftermath, at least 39 students continue to remain missing, marking the fourth such abduction in the northern part of the country since December 2020.
The kidnapping took place late Thursday night at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, in the Igabi local government area of Kaduna state, police said.