"Police said on Tuesday gunmen in the Nigerian state of Kwara have kidnapped 10 women and children in the latest armed gang seizure to rock Africa's most populous country. Authorities said the Monday night seizure in the western state targeted the village of Isapa. Kwara state police commissioner Ojo Adekimi said the attackers in were herders who had "shot sporadically" and seized women and children from local farming families."
"The kidnapping comes as parents of dozens of children taken from a Catholic school last week pleaded for their release. In that incident, armed gangs seized more than 300 children from the Catholic school in Nigeria's north-central Niger state. At least 50 victims taken from the school, St Mary's, managed to escape, but more than 265 children and teachers are still being held."
""My son is a small boy. He doesn't even know how to talk," said Michael Ibrahim. His son, who is four, suffers from asthma, he said. "We don't know the condition in which the boy is," said Ibrahim, adding the abduction had so sickened his wife that she had to be taken to hospital."
Gunmen attacked Isapa village in Kwara state on Monday night, firing sporadically and seizing 10 women and children; authorities identified the attackers as herders and launched a manhunt with police and local hunters, and one woman escaped. Armed gangs also seized more than 300 children from St Mary's Catholic school in Niger state, with at least 50 escaping and over 265 children and teachers still held. Separate kidnappings took 25 schoolgirls in Kebbi and 13 girls in Borno. Nigeria faces a prolonged security crisis driven by jihadist attacks and bandit gangs amid contested international claims about targeted violence.
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