More than 80 students, as well as several teachers, were abducted from schools in a northwestern state on Thursday following gun attacks on Nigerian schools and the abduction of students.
Gunmen have abducted more than 80 Nigerian students in an attack on a school in the northwestern state of Kobe.
Reuters quoted a schoolteacher as saying, quoting Nigerian police, that the gunmen also took five teachers with them during Thursday’s attack.
Although the perpetrators of the recent attack have not been identified, Boko Haram terrorists have repeatedly abducted hundreds of male and female students in various parts of Nigeria in recent years. Recently, gunmen abducted a school of religious studies in the Nigerian state of Niger and abducted 136 children.
Excluding the new attack, more than 860 Nigerian children and students have been abducted by gunmen since December.
Boko Haram is a terrorist group that launched a bloody insurgency and war in northeastern Nigeria in 2009 and gradually expanded its attacks to neighboring countries including Niger, Chad and Cameroon.