Unidentified gunmen shot dead the deputy director who resisted and abducted 25 female students of the school. One of the teachers was injured and is now in the hospital. According to CNN, none of the known groups has yet claimed responsibility for the crime.
The attack took place at four o'clock on Monday morning, when the students were still asleep. Armed men climbed over the fence of the school, broke into the building and took the children away towards the nearest forest.
In recent decades, the abduction of children in Nigeria has been a common practice for numerous armed groups, which then demand a ransom for them. The largest abduction was committed in 2014 by the militants of the Boko Haram group (banned in Russia), who took 270 girls with them from a school in the city of Chibok. In March 2024, militants abducted more than 200 children from a school in the city of Kuriga. kommersant.ru.
