Gun-wielding individuals have taken the life of an instructor and kidnapped no fewer than 25 pupils in an raid targeting a educational institution for young women in Nigeria's northwestern region, authorities have confirmed.
The criminal group breached the comprehensive secondary school for girls in Kebbi State's Maga area at approximately 04:00 local time on Monday, police confirmed.
The assailants "confronted officers on duty in a firefight" before breaching the school's outer barrier and seizing the students from their dormitory, an official report indicated.
A school employee was lost their life while safeguarding the students. A second sustained gunshot wounds and is now being treated medically.
Witnesses reported a large group of attackers, referred to locally as criminal elements, who arrived firing sporadically to cause panic.
Local residents informed journalists that the attackers afterwards forced a contingent of young women into surrounding rural areas.
The authorities announced they had sent "extra specialized police forces, alongside military personnel and vigilante groups" to the area.
A systematic finding and recovery effort is currently ongoing in nearby woodlands and potential getaway paths.
In recent years, schools in northern Nigeria have become frequent targets for weapon-carrying factions, who routinely perform seizures to seek ransom payments or leverage deals with the government.
The assault in Kebbi State emphasizes the ongoing security challenge troubling the locality, resulting in households in Maga in a state of fearful exhaustion as they anticipate and pray for their children's secure homecoming.
Protection challenge in northern Nigeria has escalated dramatically in the past few months, with educational institutions experiencing the greatest impact of the violence.
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