Nigeria: Exclusive - 36 Students Still Missing After Borno School Attack
State officials said 36 students remain missing after the Lassa school attack, while troops rescued 10 victims and search efforts continue.
- On Monday, gunmen stormed Government Day Secondary School in Lassa, Borno State, during final exams, abducting at least 36 students and one staff member while eight others were rescued.
- Suspected Islamic State West Africa Province fighters carried out the raid, continuing years of jihadist violence that has frequently targeted schools across Nigeria's conflict-affected northeast.
- Borno Commissioner for Education Lawan Abba Wakilbe confirmed the missing comprise 25 female and 11 male students, prompting the Borno State Government to order temporary closures of schools in Lassa, Dille, and Chul.
- Nigerian troops supported by the Nigerian Air Force launched a pursuit operation to recover the abductees, though families report receiving no official updates on their children's whereabouts.
- This incident marks the third mass school abduction since May, following recent attacks in Oyo state, as analysts warn of an uptick in such violence since 2025.
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In the state of Borno, in northeastern Nigeria, armed men carried out a new mass kidnapping on Monday 29 June in a secondary school. The assailants took the high school students who were studying in the secondary school of the city of Lassa, in the district of Akira-Uba on Monday morning. Three people, including a soldier, were killed, according to the authorities. This area is the epicentre of the jihadist insurgency for more than 15 years.
Nigeria: Exclusive - 36 Students Still Missing After Borno School Attack
PREMIUM TIMES has independently confirmed, through interviews with parents and a community-generated register, that 36 students remain missing following the attack on Government Day Secondary School, Lassa.
EXCLUSIVE: 36 students still missing after Borno school attack
PREMIUM TIMES has independently confirmed, through interviews with parents and a community-generated register, that 36 students remain missing following the attack on Government Day Secondary School, Lassa.
Mass school kidnappings in Nigeria in recent years
LAGOS, July 1 - At least 36 children and a staff member are missing after being kidnapped by gunmen from a school in Nigeria's northeast, the third such mass school abduction since May in Africa's most populous country. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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