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| Gunmen kidnap 140 school students in northwest Nigeria |
| 2021-07-06 |
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Heavily-armed criminal gangs often attack villages to loot, steal cattle and abduct for ransom in northwest and central Nigeria, but since the start of the year they have increasingly targeted schools and colleges. The attackers scaled a fence to break into the Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna state in the early hours of Monday, taking away most of the 165 pupils boarding there overnight. “The kidnappers took away 140 students, only 25 students escaped. We still have no idea where the students were taken,” Emmanuel Paul, a teacher at the school told AFP. Kaduna state police spokesman Mohammed Jalige confirmed the early Monday morning attack, but he could not give details on the number of pupils taken. “Tactical police teams went after the kidnappers,” he said. “We are still on the rescue mission.” Around 1,000 students and pupils have been abducted in different Nigerian states since December last year. Most have been released after negotiations with local officials, although some are still being held. Bethel Baptist High School is a co-education college established by Baptist church in 1991 at Maramara village in Chikun district outside the state capital Kaduna. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Bethel Baptist High School Christians, like the mass abduction that started it all and had Michelle Obama making sad puppy eyes. |
| Posted by: Hupanter Angiter6497 2021-07-06 15:47 |
| #2 Armed attackers kidnap 140 students from a boarding school in Nigeria after overpowering security guards |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-07-06 08:39 |
| #1 Notice the absence of the term.... 'to be sold into slavery ?' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-07-06 08:13 |