Nigerian Students Have Gone Missing
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Nigerian students have gone missing.
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According to social media, hundreds of Nigerian students are feared missing after gunmen raided a secondary school in the northern state of Katsina.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar has discovered that a large group of men armed with AK-47s overran the all-boys Government Science secondary school in the town of Kankara on Friday night, marching more than 300 students into surrounding forests. According to TheGuardian.com the leader of Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group that abducted hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria six years ago, has claimed responsibility for the mass abduction.
Aljazeera.com reports that the boarding school had a total of 839 students and so far they are unable to account for 333 children. Students who managed to escape the attack have been coming out of hiding in the forest.
According to the DailyNigerian.com, the Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi, has given an assurance that the abducted students of the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, will be rescued soon as they have established their whereabouts. In a statement he said, “The task is easy for the armed forces and the police. The only thing is that we need prayers from you so that there will be no collateral damage in the event of being hostile.”
