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Hundreds Of Nigerian Schoolgirls Abducted, UN Reax
The United Nations Secretary-General has strongly condemned the abduction of 317 girls during an attack on Friday on a secondary school in northern Nigeria.
The United Nations Secretary-General has strongly condemned the abduction of 317 girls during an attack on Friday on a secondary school in northern Nigeria.
Police and the military have begun joint operations to rescue the girls after the attack at the Government Girls Junior Secondary School in Jangebe town, according to a police spokesman in Zamfara state, Mohammed Shehu, who confirmed the number abducted.
Yunusa Muhammed, interviewed by The Cable Newspaper, said that four of his daughters studying in the school were kidnapped.
He added that many were still unaccounted for while 14 trucks loaded with onions were burnt to ashes.
Binji, who spoke with our correspondent at his Sokoto office, said 400 shops belonging to their members were looted and torched by the hoodlums.
According to him, over N200m was stolen from the burnt shops while 170 houses, including those owned by their members, were razed.
He stated that a 4-member committee set up by the association and chaired by the deputy national president who is from Lagos was mandated to investigate the remote cause of the attack and the damage it caused to their members.