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muriel_volestrangler

(101,160 posts)
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 01:07 PM Feb 2021

Kidnappers abduct 317 schoolgirls in Nigeria in armed night-time raid

Source: The Guardian

Police have said 317 schoolgirls have been abducted in north-west Nigeria, the third mass kidnapping of students in three months in an escalating wave of rural attacks blamed on groups of armed bandits.

The schoolgirls were abducted at about 1am from the town of Jangebe, Zamfara state, from the Jangebe government girls’ secondary school, police said on Friday.
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A local government official in Zamfara said the gunmen shot sporadically and took the girls away. “Information available to me said they came with vehicles and moved the students, they also moved some on foot,” Sulaiman Tanau Anka, an information commissioner, told Reuters.
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A surge in armed militancy by several armed bandit groups in Africa’s most populous country has caused mounting dismay, amid a breakdown of security, particularly in rural areas. The groups operate from forest hideouts spanning north-western Nigeria into Niger, where they have launched attacks, kidnappings, theft and sexual violence on rural towns and villages.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/26/kidnappers-abduct-schoolchildren-in-nigeria

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Kidnappers abduct 317 schoolgirls in Nigeria in armed night-time raid (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Feb 2021 OP
What a nightmare. Make7 Feb 2021 #1
Those poor girls Bayard Feb 2021 #2
It's always the girls SharonAnn Feb 2021 #3
Not really. The last mass kidnapping of school kids was boys: scarletwoman Feb 2021 #4
And always with a United States Democratic President. Why? jimfields33 Feb 2021 #5
Kids were taken while trump was president too. They didnt take 4 yrs off! oldsoftie Feb 2021 #6
Oh ok. jimfields33 Feb 2021 #7
Melania said she didn't really care. Marcuse Feb 2021 #8
Not a good try there. Kingofalldems Feb 2021 #9
Rebel/terrorist groups hiding in the bush in Central Africa don't pay much attention to US politics EX500rider Mar 2021 #15
gawds. How horrible for kids and families. It goes on and on.. riversedge Feb 2021 #10
This is horrifying. I wish there was something we could do. FlyingPiggy Feb 2021 #11
again? rockfordfile Mar 2021 #12
Nigeria school abduction: Hundreds of girls released by gunmen muriel_volestrangler Mar 2021 #13
"state governments had paid kidnappers "with money and vehicles" in the past." Hortensis Mar 2021 #14

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
4. Not really. The last mass kidnapping of school kids was boys:
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 01:51 PM
Feb 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/africa/nigerian-schoolboys-released-intl/index.html

344 kidnapped Nigerian boys freed, says state official

(CNN)Hundreds of schoolboys who were abducted last week in northwestern Nigeria have been freed, according to a state official.

More than 300 schoolboys were missing for nearly a week, after an attack on the Government Science Secondary School Kankara in Katsina State. The Nigerian military late on Thursday rescued 344 of them, and they have been received at the state capital by governor Aminu Bello Masari, according to his spokesperson, Abdu Labaran.

Boko Haram was not involved, he added, but rather the boys were kidnapped by bandits masquerading as the Islamist terrorist group.


jimfields33

(15,475 posts)
5. And always with a United States Democratic President. Why?
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 02:43 PM
Feb 2021

I remember last time our First Lady Obama got involved. Now it’s happening with the Biden’s. That pisses me off!!!!!

muriel_volestrangler

(101,160 posts)
13. Nigeria school abduction: Hundreds of girls released by gunmen
Tue Mar 2, 2021, 06:00 AM
Mar 2021
A group of nearly 300 girls who were kidnapped from a school in north-western Nigeria last week have been released, a local official says.

The girls were abducted by unidentified gunmen from their boarding school in Jangebe, Zamfara state, on Friday and taken to a forest, police said.

The state's governor said on Tuesday that the group had been freed and the girls were now safe.
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Mr Matawalle has denied paying for the girls to be released, but last week President Muhammadu Buhari admitted state governments had paid kidnappers "with money and vehicles" in the past and urged them to review the policy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56249626

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
14. "state governments had paid kidnappers "with money and vehicles" in the past."
Tue Mar 2, 2021, 06:51 AM
Mar 2021

Sounds like that may explain why the frequency of these mass kidnappings has stepped up.

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