Nigeria s Boko Haram jihadist rebels have claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in one of the largest attacks in years on a boys school in northern Katsina state.
More than 330 students are missing from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara after gunmen with assault rifles attacked their school Friday night.
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The government and the attackers are negotiating over the fate of the boys, according to Nigerian presidential spokesman Garba Shehu. The kidnappers had made contact and discussions were already on, pertaining to the safety and return of the children to their homes, said Shehu on Twitter on Tuesday. He gave no information about the identity of the abductors.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist rebels have claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of pupils in an attack on a boys’ school in northern Katsina state, according to a Nigerian online newspaper.
More than 330 children are missing from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara after gunmen with assault rifles attacked their school on Friday night.
The Daily Nigerian said it received an audio message from Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau saying his group abducted the schoolboys because Western education is against the tenets of Islam.
“What happened in Katsina was done to promote Islam and discourage un-Islamic practices as Western education is not the type of education permitted by Allah and his Holy Prophet,” the paper quoted Mr Shekau as saying.
Boko Haram claims responsibility for abducting students in northern Nigeria
More than 330 students remain missing after gunmen with assault rifles attacked their school, although scores of others managed to escape.
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People gather inside the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Nigeria, on Saturday after hundreds of students there were abducted by gunmen. [ ABDULLATIF YUSUF | AP ]
Updated Dec. 15, 2020
LAGOS, Nigeria â Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeriaâs 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.
LAGOS (AP):
Anxiety is growing among the parents of hundreds of students who remain missing three days after gunmen attacked their school in Katsina state in northern Nigeria.
More than 300 students are missing after the attack on the Government Science Secondary School, a boys’ school in Kankara, on Friday night, Katsina Governor Aminu Masari said.
A joint rescue operation was launched on Saturday by Nigeria’s police, air force and army, according to the government. The military was in gunfights with the bandits after locating their hideout in the Zango/Paula forest on Saturday, according to a statement by President Muhammadu Buhari.
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