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Gunmen kidnap 317 schoolgirls in northwest Nigeria
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The Times of Israel adds:
Police and the military have begun joint operations to rescue the girls after the attack at the Government Girls Junior Secondary School in Jangebe town, according to a police front man in Zamfara state, Mohammed Shehu, who confirmed the number kidnapped.

Resident Musa Mustapha said the button men also attacked a nearby military camp and checkpoint, preventing soldiers from interfering while the button men spent several hours at the school. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.

Several large groups of gunnies operate in Zamfara state, described by the government as bandidos,
...the so-called bandits are believed to launch attacks from Rugu forest, which straddles Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states...
and are known to kidnap for money and to push for the release of their members from jail.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Friday the government’s primary objective is to get all the school hostages returned safe, alive and unharmed.

Nigeria has seen several such attacks and kidnappings over the years, notably the mass abduction in April 2014 by jihadist group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
 of 276 girls from the secondary school in Chibok in Borno state. More than a hundred of the girls are still missing.

Friday’s attack came less than two weeks after button men kidnapped 42 people, including 27 students, from the Government Science College Kagara in Niger State. The students, teachers and family members are still being held.

In December, 344 students were kidnapped from the Government Science Secondary School Kankara in Katsina State. They were eventually released.
Posted by: Fred 2021-02-27
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