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Nigeria: new mass kidnapping in a school

2021-02-26T09:04:35.747Z


Dozens of armed men stormed the dormitories of a school for young girls in northwestern Nigeria on the night of Thursday February 25 to Friday February 26 and abducted large numbers of them, said Friday. to AFP a professor from this establishment. Read also: Kidnappings in Nigeria: release of 53 hostages kidnapped in a bus " More than 300 girls are still missing, " Sadi Kawaye, a school teacher


Dozens of armed men stormed the dormitories of a school for young girls in northwestern Nigeria on the night of Thursday February 25 to Friday February 26 and abducted large numbers of them, said Friday. to AFP a professor from this establishment.

Read also: Kidnappings in Nigeria: release of 53 hostages kidnapped in a bus

"

More than 300 girls are still missing,

" Sadi Kawaye, a school teacher in Jangebe, Zamfara state, told AFP in this new mass kidnapping of children for ransom.

"

I am on the road to Jangebe,

" said Sadi Kawaye, a father whose two daughters were abducted.

"

I received a call to inform me that bandits had kidnapped students,

" he said.

This is another mass kidnapping for ransom in this region, where armed groups called "

bandits

" terrorize populations, steal livestock and loot villages.

Last week, 42 ​​children were abducted in Niger state, in west-central Nigeria, and more than 300 boys were also abducted in early December in Kankara in Katsina state.

These criminal gangs often hide in camps in the Rugu Forest, which spans four states in northern and central Nigeria: Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna, and Niger.

They are motivated by the greed, but some have forged strong links with jihadist groups present in the Northeast.

This criminal violence has killed more than 8,000 people since 2011, and forced more than 200,000 people to flee their homes, according to a report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) think tank published in May 2020.

Source: lefigaro

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