Large numbers of children have been kidnapped, presumably for ransom, by gunmen from a Koranic school in north-central Nigeria, a country where mass kidnappings are on the rise, authorities and residents reported on Sunday.
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A still uncertain number of students from the Salihu Tanko Islamic school were abducted with passengers from a bus
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