Hundreds of Nigerian students missing after attack on school
Source: LA Times
Hundreds of Nigerian students were missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state, police said, while the president said the military was in gunfights with bandits in a forest as it tried to find the students.
The Government Science Secondary School in Kankara was attacked Friday night by a large group of bandits who shot “with AK-47 rifles,” Katsina state police spokesman Gambo Isah said in a statement.
Police engaged the attackers “in a gunfight that gave [some of] the students the opportunity to scale the fence of the school and run for safety,” Isah said.
About 400 students are missing, and 200 are accounted for, Isah said. The school is believed to have had more than 600 students.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-13/hundreds-of-nigerian-students-missing-after-attack-on-school
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