Gunmen have kidnapped 25 women from a boarding college in northwestern Nigeria, based on police.
The assault befell at 4am on Monday native time (3am UK time), leaving one employees member lifeless and one other injured.
Police spokesperson Nafi’u Abubakar Kotarkoshi stated the assailants had been armed with “sophisticated weapons” and exchanged hearth with guards earlier than abducting the women.
He stated groups had been looking suspected escape routes and surrounding forests to search out the kidnapped college students and perpetrators.
The boarding college is in Maga, in Kebbi state’s Danko-Wasagu space.
No group has claimed accountability for the abductions.
Earlier assaults
The incident is the newest college abduction in Nigeria’s northern area, the place armed teams have been concentrating on schoolchildren for greater than a decade.
However there was an uptick in assaults by totally different armed teams in northern Nigeria this 12 months.
Essentially the most notorious case was in 2014 when militant group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 college students from a secondary college in Chibok. Many stay lacking.
Generally kids are launched by their abductors or rescued by authorities.
Final 12 months, authorities managed to rescue 137 hostages greater than two weeks after they had been taken. But even on this case, greater than half of these taken had been presumed to nonetheless be held by the captors.
