"Gunmen kidnapped 25 female students and killed the vice principal of a secondary school in Kebbi state in northwestern Nigeria Monday, police said. Nigeria's northwest has seen repeated kidnappings from schools in recent years by armed gangs seeking ransom. What do we know about the raid at the school in Kebbi state? Police said that the attackers had "sophisticated weapons" and were "shooting sporadically" during the raid."
"They "stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School" at around 4 a.m. local time (0300 UTC), according to the statement. Police officers were deployed to the scene, but the statement stressed: "Unfortunately, the suspected bandits had already scaled through the fence of the school and abducted twenty-five students from their hostel to [an] unknown destination]." A report said that the school's vice principal was shot dead while resisting the attack and a security guard was injured."
Gunmen attacked the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Kebbi state around 4 a.m., using sophisticated weapons and shooting sporadically. The attackers scaled the school fence, abducted 25 female students from their hostel, and fled to an unknown destination. The school's vice principal was shot dead while resisting the raid and a security guard was injured. Police, additional tactical units, the military, and local vigilantes are searching nearby forests and likely escape routes. Northwestern Nigeria has experienced repeated attacks by criminal gangs known as bandits who loot, burn homes, steal cattle, and carry out kidnappings, including about 130 children taken in Kuriga in March 2024.
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