(CNN) Students from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger were indiscriminately shot at and abducted Sunday by a group of "armed bandits," state police said in a statement. At least one person was confirmed dead in the latest in a string of school kidnapping raids the country has seen this year. "Armed bandits on board motorcycles in their numbers invaded Tegina town, Rafi LGA, shooting indiscriminately and abducted a yet to be ascertained number of children at Salihu Tanko Islamic school," state police said. "The bandits shot one person dead in the process," the police statement added. A spokeswoman for Niger State Government, Mary Noel-Berje, told CNN on Monday that at least 11 of the children abducted during the raid were later set free.

Source: CNN May 31, 2021 10:30 UTC