Lahore, 26th February: Hundreds of schools girls were abducted by kidnappers in Nigeria.
Baaghi TV: According to reports, unidentified gunmen kidnapped more than 300 schoolgirls from the town of Jangebe in northwest Nigeria early on Friday.
As per reports, this is the second such kidnapping in little over a week.
Sulaiman Tanau Anka, the information commissioner for Zamfara state, told Reuters, “Unknown gunmen came shooting sporadically and took the girls away in a midnight raid on the Jangebe Government Girls’ Secondary School’
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reported that more than 300 girls are estimated to have been abducted.
Peter Hawkins, UNICEF’s Nigeria representative said, “We are angered and saddened and by yet another brutal attack on schoolchildren in Nigeria.”
Police, military and intelligence services did not immediately respond to calls asking for their comments.
According to reports, school kidnappings are becoming endemic in the North of Africa’s most populous country where a surge in armed militancy in the northwest led to a breakdown of security.
Sources have informed that the rise in kidnapping is due to a sizeable government payoff in exchange for the children. However, the Nigerian government regularly denies such payouts.
Last year in December, dozens of gunmen abducted 344 schoolboys from the town of Kankara in northwest Katsina state. However, after six days the boys got free but the government denied a ransom had been paid.
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