Overview
- Armed men raided the Government Girls' Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga around 4 a.m. on November 17, according to police.
- The deputy headteacher was shot dead during the assault and another staff member was wounded.
- Attackers wielding what police described as modern weapons exchanged fire with security forces before fleeing with at least 25 pupils.
- Police and soldiers are combing suspected escape routes and surrounding forests in an ongoing search operation.
- Officials say the assailants were probably a criminal gang, as the abduction fits a pattern of mass kidnappings targeting schools in northwestern and central Nigeria.