A large number of students were abducted Sunday and one person was killed at a school in Nigeria's north central Niger State. Nigerian media, including the independent Channels TV, said about 200 students were abducted at the Salihu Tanko Islamic School in Tegina in the local government area of Rafi. Wasiu Abiodun, the Niger state police spokesman, said the abduction was carried out by 'armed bandits on board motorcycles in their numbers.' One person was shot dead during the attack and a second person was seriously injured, the state governor's spokeswoman said. Sunday's attack took place the day after the release of the remaining 14 students of a group abducted last month from a university in neighbouring Kaduna state.

Source: Daily Mail May 31, 2021 16:13 UTC