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Suspected militants abduct students in Nigeria's Borno state, residents say
Police said an unspecified number of pupils were taken or fled as troops and vigilantes searched for the attackers.
- On Friday, suspected Boko Haram or ISWAP terrorists abducted an unspecified number of students from Mussa Primary and Junior Secondary School in Borno State. Attackers arrived on motorcycles around 9 a.m. while classes were in session.
- Mussa village shares a border with the Sambisa Forest, a long-standing enclave for Islamist insurgents. The assault occurred barely 10 or 15 minutes after military troops departed the area.
- "Despite some students escaping to the bushes, I can tell you many were taken away," a teacher said. Borno State House of Assembly Deputy Speaker Abdullahi Askira confirmed the invasion occurred Friday.
- Security forces and local vigilante groups deployed to the area shortly after the incident to track the assailants. Local lawmaker Midala Usman Balami called the attack "heartbreaking" and urged authorities to act swiftly.
- Mass kidnappings have become a major security challenge in Nigeria in recent years, though this is the first such school abduction in Borno since 2014, when Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls in Chibok.
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leprogres.frBetween 35 and 43 schoolchildren were abducted by alleged jihadists on Friday in northeastern Nigeria.
According to villagers and parents, between 35 and 43 pupils were abducted on Friday, 15 May, in the morning at the primary school in the village of Musa in Borno State, including a toddler.
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Suspected militants abduct students in Nigeria's Borno state, residents say
Suspected militants abducted an unspecified number of students from a primary and junior secondary school in Nigeria's insurgency-ravaged northeastern state of Borno on Friday, residents said.
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Students missing following attack by armed groups on school in northeastern Nigeria, police say
Suspected jihadi militants have attacked a secondary school in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state. Police report that several students are missing after the attack on Friday.
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