Overview
- Police say gunmen struck the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga around 4 a.m., killing the vice principal and wounding another staff member.
- The assailants were described as heavily armed, exchanged fire with guards, scaled the fence and seized 25 girls from their dormitories.
- A joint operation of police tactical units, soldiers and local vigilantes is combing suspected escape routes and nearby forests to recover the students.
- No group has claimed responsibility, and officials have not identified the perpetrators, though residents and a teacher reported a flight toward neighboring Zamfara state.
- The attack fits a yearslong pattern of mass school kidnappings across northern Nigeria, with authorities citing criminal 'bandit' networks that profit from ransom abductions.