Boko Haram claims kidnapping of Nigeria students in north
by Sam Olukoya, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 15, 2020 4:48 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 15, 2020 at 4:58 am EDT
LAGOS, Nigeria Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist rebels have claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in an attack on a boys school in northern Katsina State, a Nigerian online newspaper says.
More than 330 students are missing from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara after gunmen with assault rifles attacked their school Friday night.
The Daily Nigerian said it received an audio message from Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau saying that his group abducted the schoolboys because Western education is against the tenets of Islam.
The jihadist terror group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in Nigeria.
More than 330 students are missing after an attack by gunmen on the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara on Friday night.
The governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, said the attackers had contacted the government, and negotiations over the fate of the children were ongoing.
Posting on Twitter, he said: The abductors of our Children have made contacts with the Government and talks are ongoing to ensure their safety and return to their respective families. The security agencies deployed for rescue operations have also informed us that they have located their position .
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A Nigerian woman whose only son is among the more than 330 boys still missing after being kidnapped from their school in the northern Katsina state last week pleaded for their return in a protest Tuesday, as the jihadist rebel group Boko Haram reportedly claimed responsibility for the mass abduction.
Hundreds of gunmen with assault rifles on Friday surrounded the Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), an all-boys boarding school in the town of Kankara, firing at police before rounding up students and forcing them to march through the heavily forested region in separated groups, witnesses have said.
Boko Haram claims responsibility for abduction of Nigerian students
Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeria s northern Katsina State last week in one of the largest such attacks in years, raising fears of a growing wave of violence in the region.
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Posted: Dec 15, 2020 2:09 PM ET | Last Updated: December 15, 2020
A parent sits outside the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria. More than 330 students from the school are still missing after an attack last week that Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for on Tuesday.(Kola Sulaimon/AFP/Getty Images)