Armed attackers in Nigeria kidnap 25 girls from boarding school

Gunmen kidnapped 25 girls from a boarding schoolhouse successful Nigeria’s Kebbi State and killed astatine slightest 1 staffer, authorities said Monday.

The schoolgirls were taken astir 4 a.m., and nary radical instantly claimed work for the incident.

Police spokesperson Nafi'u Abubakar Kotarkoshi told The Associated Press the gunmen had "sophisticated weapons" and exchanged occurrence with guards earlier abducting the girls.

"A combined squad is presently combing suspected flight routes and surrounding forests successful a coordinated hunt and rescue cognition aimed astatine recovering the abducted students and arresting the perpetrators," helium said, adding that 1 idiosyncratic was killed and different was injured.

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A pistillate looks connected arsenic she walks past a schoolroom successful Shehu Kangiwa Model Primary School successful Argungu, Kebbi State, successful bluish Nigeria connected April 12, 2025. (Leslie Fauvel / AFP via Getty Images)

Abdulkarim Abdullahi Maga, a nonmigratory who said his girl and granddaughter were abducted successful the raid, told the AP that the attackers entered the schoolhouse with motorcycles.

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"They archetypal went consecutive to the teacher’s location and killed him earlier sidesplitting the guard," said Maga.

The latest abductions travel amid a drawstring of wide kidnappings successful bluish Nigeria successful caller years.

FILE - The sanction of a pupil is written connected a seat successful a deserted schoolroom astatine the Government Girls Secondary School, the time aft the abduction of implicit 300 schoolgirls by gunmen successful Jangebe, a colony successful Zamfara State, northwest of Nigeria connected Feb. 27, 2021. (Kola Sulaimon / AFP via Getty Images)

In 2024, 280 students were abducted from a schoolhouse successful Kaduna State and astatine slightest 200 others, mostly internally displaced women and children, were abducted successful Borno State portion reportedly searching for firewood, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk.

More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from a Chibok secondary schoolhouse successful 2014 by Boko Haram militants, sparking planetary outrage and a #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

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Chibok schoolhouse girls precocious freed from Boko Haram captivity are seen successful Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, May 7, 2017. (AP Photo/ Olamikan Gbemiga)

Rep. Riley Moore, R-W. Va., asked for prayers for the kidnapped schoolgirls and called connected the Nigerian authorities to bash much to extremity the "rampant violence."

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