Overview
- Police say gunmen stormed Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga around 4 a.m., exchanging fire with guards before scaling the fence and seizing 25 students.
- Vice Principal Hassan Yakubu Makuku was shot dead during the attack and another staff member was wounded, according to police.
- Search-and-rescue teams of police tactical units, soldiers and local vigilantes are combing suspected escape routes and nearby forests.
- No group has claimed responsibility, and officials describe the assailants as bandits as investigators probe motive and identity.
- Local accounts report the attackers arrived on motorcycles and fled toward Zamfara state, raising questions about nearby checkpoints.