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Nigeria s dreaded Boko Haram has sounded a grim warning in claiming responsibility for a mass kidnapping in the country s northwest, analysts say.
Hundreds of students were seized by gunmen last Friday from a school in Katsina state.
The shocking operation instantly revived memories of the abduction of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok, in the northeastern state of Borno, in 2014. It s a terrible political statement, said Bulama Bukarti, an analyst in sub-Saharan Africa at the Tony Blair Institute. It is evidence showing that the jihadist group is now in the northwest, hundreds of miles (kilometres) from its birthplace, he said.
The attack also acted as reminder of President Muhammadu Buhari s vows to wipe out Boko Haram it coincided with a visit to Katsina, his home state.