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In less than a week, another schoolgirl has been abducted in Nigeria. Unidentified gunmen stormed a school dormitory in the northwestern province of Zamfara around 1am local time on Thursday and abducted 317 students, police said. However, no one has claimed responsibility for the abduction.
Zamfara Province Information Commissioner Suleiman Tanau
Anka told Reuters the incident took place at a government secondary girls'
school in Jangebe village He said that at midnight they (the gunmen) came in a
car and picked up the students. Some of the students were taken away on foot.
'Security forces are conducting rescue operations.
Students' clothes are hanging in the courtyard of the dormitory. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has also confirmed the abduction. More than three hundred students have been abducted, they said. "We are outraged and saddened by another brutal attack on schoolgirls in Nigeria," said Peter Hawkins, the agency's Nigerian spokesman.
Parents of the abducted students gathered outside the school after the incident. Some are looking for their child in the jungle. A teacher told the BBC there were 421 students at the school at the time. All but 55 of them have been abducted. This is the latest case of abduction targeting schools in Nigeria in recent times. Abductions of school children by armed groups are frequent in the country.
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Last week, 42 people were abducted in the Cagara region of
Niger province, including 27 students. More than 300 schoolchildren were
abducted last December in Kankara, Katsina Prefecture. They were later released
through negotiations. In 2014, the militant group Boko Haram abducted 276
schoolgirls from Chibuk.
The release of 42 teachers and students abducted from the school hostel has not been matched yet. The release of 42 people abducted from a government science college in Kagara, Niger, on Tuesday has not yet been released.
Among them are 27 students, 3 teachers and 12 family members of
teachers. Noel-Barzi said the government was doing everything necessary to
secure their release. A military plane took off from the capital Abuja
yesterday to rescue the abducted people. But it crashed and seven officers were
killed.
