A path leads into the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy training center in Kaduna, Nigeria. [Reuters]About 150 students are missing after armed men raided a boarding school in Nigeria's Kaduna state, a parent and an administrator said on Monday, and police said they were in hot pursuit alongside military personnel. The attack on the Bethel Baptist High School is the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria, which authorities have attributed to armed bandits seeking ransom payments. Reverend John Hayab, a founder of the school, told Reuters about 25 students had managed to escape while the school's other students remained missing. Armed men, known locally as bandits, have made an industry of kidnapping students for ransom in northwest Nigeria, with Kaduna state particularly hard hit.

Source: Standard Digital July 07, 2021 05:03 UTC