Gunmen have abducted 25 girls from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria, according to police. <\/p>\n
The attack took place at 4am on Monday local time (3am UK time), leaving one staff member dead and another injured.<\/p>\n
Police spokesperson Nafi’u Abubakar Kotarkoshi said the assailants were armed with “sophisticated weapons” and exchanged fire with guards before abducting the girls.<\/p>\n
He said teams were searching suspected escape routes and surrounding forests to find the abducted students and perpetrators.<\/p>\n
The boarding school is in Maga, in Kebbi state’s Danko-Wasagu area.<\/p>\n
No group has claimed responsibility for the abductions.<\/p>\n
Previous attacks<\/p>\n
The incident is the latest school abduction in Nigeria<\/a>‘s northern region, where armed groups have been targeting schoolchildren for more than a decade.<\/p>\n But there has been an uptick in attacks by different armed groups in northern Nigeria this year.<\/p>\n Read more on Sky News: The most infamous case was in 2014 when militant group Boko Haram<\/a> abducted 276 students from a secondary school in Chibok. Many remain missing.<\/p>\n Sometimes children are released by their abductors or rescued by authorities.<\/p>\n
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