Overview
- Armed men stormed the Government Girls’ Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi state, before dawn on Nov. 17 and abducted 25 students from their dormitory.
- A staff member was killed and another wounded during the assault, according to police.
- One of the abducted students escaped through the forest and returned home, the school director said.
- Police, soldiers and local vigilantes are combing escape routes and nearby forests in coordinated search-and-rescue efforts.
- No group has claimed responsibility, though residents and analysts suspect criminal “bandit” gangs that have carried out repeated school kidnappings in northwest Nigeria.