LAGOS, NIGERIA - Gunmen abducted 317 girls Friday from a boarding school in northern Nigeria, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation. "We will not succumb to blackmail by bandits and criminals who target innocent school students in the expectation of huge ransom payments," he said. Friday's attack came less than two weeks after gunmen abducted 42 people, including 27 students, from the Government Science College Kagara in Niger State. In December, 344 students were abducted from the Government Science Secondary School Kankara in Katsina State. Amnesty International also condemned the "appalling attack," warning in a statement that "the girls abducted are in serious risk of being harmed."

Source: Ethiopian News February 26, 2021 21:11 UTC