Dozens of armed men on motorcycles arrived at a school in the north of the country. Hundreds of boys and children between the ages of seven and 15, some of whom managed to escape.
It is not clear who is responsible for the kidnapping, the most mass in Nigeria since 2021. Kidnappings from schools in Nigeria first characterized the tactics of the jihadist organization Boko Haram, which became infamous around the world when it kidnapped more than 200 female students from a girls' school in Chibok in Borno state.