Nigeria: All schools shut in Nigeria's Zamfara state after abductions

ABUJA, 02 September 2021, (TON): All schools have been ordered to close in Nigeria's north-western Zamfara state following the latest mass abduction of students.

On Wednesday morning armed men on motorbikes and pick-up trucks stormed a secondary school.

A teacher said “76 students, most of them girls, and a member of staff had been taken.”

Reports say “more children may have been seized as 400 were enrolled at the school.”

At least one child was critically injured when the gunmen opened fire, the reports say.

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