Gun-wielding individuals have killed a teacher and kidnapped no fewer than 25 pupils in an assault against a female high school in Nigeria's northwestern region, authorities have confirmed.
The armed faction invaded the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State at roughly 4 in the morning local time on the beginning of the work week, authorities reported.
The attackers "engaged police personnel on duty in a shootout" before scaling the perimeter fence and taking the pupils captive from their dormitory, authorities disclosed.
An educational worker was lost their life while safeguarding the students. An additional employee received firearm injuries and is now being treated medically.
Witnesses reported a sizeable number of assailants, identified in the area as outlaw groups, who appeared discharging weapons intermittently to create fear.
Local residents disclosed to media that the gunmen subsequently marched a contingent of young women into adjacent wilderness.
The authorities announced they had sent "supplementary tactical squads, alongside military personnel and vigilante groups" to the area.
A organized locating and saving mission is underway in surrounding forests and suspected escape routes.
In the last several years, learning centers in northern Nigerian regions have regularly come under attack for militant organizations, who often carry out abductions to demand financial compensation or secure advantages in discussions with officials.
The assault in Kebbi State underscores the continuing safety emergency troubling the locality, causing relatives in Maga in a situation of anxious fatigue as they expect and desire their children's secure homecoming.
Security crisis in Nigeria's northern territories has intensified significantly in the last several months, with educational institutions suffering the most of the unrest.
Essential Information
- Armed attackers attacked a school for young women in north-western Nigeria
- An instructor was fatally shot while protecting students
- No fewer than 25 girl pupils were taken from their living quarters
- Law enforcement have begun a saving effort in surrounding areas
- Learning center raids have escalated in regularity in Nigeria's northern regions
