LAGOS – A large number of students were abducted Sunday and one person was killed at a school in Nigeria’s Niger State, a police spokesman said.
About 200 students were abducted at the Salihu Tanko Islamic School in Tegina in the local government area of Rafi, according to Nigerian media.
Police spokesman Wasiu Abiodun said the abduction was carried out by “armed bandits on board motorcycles in their numbers.” The gunmen fired “indiscriminately and abducted a yet to be ascertained number of children,” he said.
The incident is the latest in a series of mass abductions in Nigerian schools by armed gangs who collect money for ransom.(AP)
