About 30 students from a forestry college were abducted overnight by gunmen in the northwestern state of Cantuna. Nigeria, as three students said today, in the fourth mass kidnapping at school since December.
Cantona Security Commissioner Samuel Aruwan confirmed the attack, but did not specify how many students have been abducted.
As broadcast by AMPE, a series of abductions in schools in recent months has caused concern among many Nigerians who believe local authorities are exacerbating the situation by leaving the kidnappers unpunished or paying them money.
In recent weeks, 279 schoolgirls have been released following their abduction from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria, while 27 teenagers were abducted from their school in the state of Niger, in the north-central part of the country.
The practice of abductions from boarding schools started by the Boko Haram jihadist organization, who abducted 270 schoolgirls from Chibok in the northeastern part of the country in 2014, of whom about 100 are still missing. Since then, armed gangs have been carrying out kidnappings from schools, demanding ransom.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said the ransom practice has encouraged the kidnappers.
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