Overview
- State police said armed bandits attacked around 2 a.m., storming dormitories at the St. Mary’s boarding school in Agwara/Papiri and capturing students, including some intercepted as they fled.
- The Christian Association of Nigeria put the toll at 303 students and 12 teachers, a scale reported as surpassing the 2014 Chibok abductions.
- Tactical police units and the army are combing surrounding forests with local hunters, and no group has claimed responsibility.
- President Bola Tinubu canceled overseas travel including attendance at the G20 in Johannesburg, and authorities ordered precautionary closures of numerous schools.
- The mass kidnapping follows other attacks this week, including 25 students seized in Kebbi and a church assault in Kwara, while U.S. and Nigerian officials held talks in Washington on curbing violence.