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ABOUT 140 students are missing after armed men raided a boarding school in Nigeria’s north-western Kaduna state on Monday, the country’s 10th mass kidnapping since December.
“They … overpowered the school’s security guards and made their way into the students’ hostel where they abducted an unspecified number of students into the forest,” a police statement said.
“Tactical police teams went after the kidnappers,” Kaduna state police spokesman Muhammed Jalige said. “We are still on the rescue mission.”
Emmanuel Paul, a teacher at the Bethel Baptist High School, said: “The kidnappers took away 140 students, only 25 students escaped. We still have no idea where the students were taken.”
At least 1,000 school students have been kidnapped since December. Local gangs carry out the abductions, holding the children in return for a ransom. Most have been returned safely, but about 150 are still missing.
The most high-profile kidnapping was carried out by jihadist group Boko Haram, whose members took some 276 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok, Borno state, in 2014.
