Overview
- Police say gunmen raided Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga around 4 a.m., killing the vice principal and wounding a staffer before seizing 25 students.
- The assailants carried “sophisticated weapons,” exchanged fire with guards, scaled the fence and fled toward nearby forests, according to authorities.
- Security forces, vigilantes and local hunters are combing suspected routes and forest hideouts after the army chief ordered nonstop, intelligence-driven pursuit.
- One abducted schoolgirl has escaped and is safe, the principal said, as officials work to account for the remaining students.
- No group has claimed responsibility; officials describe the attackers as bandits, and unverified local leads point to gangs such as Dogo Gide or Falando within a wider pattern that has seen at least 1,500 students kidnapped since 2014.