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on their school it happened in the town of jenin and zamfara state police say they've launched a search and rescue operation officials say gunmen stormed the government girls science secondary school shortly after midnight firing sporadically before taking the girls and it disappearing into a forest it comes just over a week after at least 42 people most of them students are abducted from a boys' school in ny state or a security guard working at a school described the moment the gunman stormed in which it was illegal to us as we tried to get out so we were well known so when we fired at they fired back as we continue to fight them and all of a sudden they retreated one of them left his motorcycle to escape and that's when we thought we were going to feel that we were told to go home but now as i speak to you those soldiers are in the bush fighting with them though. well kidnapping is a common tactic used by armed groups in criminal gangs in nigeria just over a month ago gunmen abducted 8 children and 2 adults from an orphanage in nigeria's capital abuja they were all freed a week later in december more than $300.00 boys were kidnapped from a secondary school and can car in

their school it happened in the town of django be in zamfara state where police and they've launched a search and rescue operation fishel say a gunman stormed the government girls science secondary school shortly after midnight firing sporadically before taking the girls they are believed to have been moved then to a forest it comes just over a week after is 42 people most of them students are abducted from a boys school in new gestate ahmed idris is in abuja. i must have operation is underway involving ground troops as well as with the support of local vigilantes who know the tree is under way in i don't tend to be under 40 surrounding that community as officials say that they want to make sure that before sunset the at least rescue these students 317 of them or pinpoint the exact location before they abductors move farther away from the community also today shortly after the abduction government officials attempted to go to join give it to assess the situation civilian officials actually and they were typed in among them of course in the convoy were journalists who went to cover the story and eventually some of them were. injured in the attack you know these calls to question

more than 300 were taken from their boarding school — the government girls science secondary school injangeben forced to walk into the bush. here's the local commissioner of police explaining the situation. it's an established fact that the students were kidnapped. we are on the trail of the kidnappers. that's why you find us in the fringes of the forest here, as part of our location efforts, it's part of our coordinated effort to trace the kidnappers and retrieve the students. so far, little information has been made available to the relatives. many gathered near the school on friday. some of the girl students avoided being taken, and relatives were keen to be reunited with them. no group has admitted responsibiilty. it's not clear if the abduction was carried out by a militant group, or rather by bandits hoping for ransom to be paid. as we mentioned, this abduction is just the most recent in a string of similar incidents. at least 42 people, including 27 students, who were kidnapped last week in the central state of n—eye—ger ——who were kidnapped last week in the central state of niger are

gibbons secondary school police and the school authorities say they were caught off guard the girls were sleeping here when the gunmen attacked what used to be called the most secure government school in zamfara state. and this secondary school used to cost more than 550 schoolgirls more than 300 of them are now in captivity this state has decided to shut down all schools in zamfara state because they cannot guarantee the safety of students without education the future of younger generation in northern nigeria is now at stake. the vice principal is wild that parents will stop sending their children to school it out said that it is a negative for me because they are girls and they are korean no to which. i feel. and do not feel comfortable to the student had. state officials say they have beefed up security exam for a state. negotiations to get the girls released are reported to be under way if. i want to assure you that the. government has the capacity to get rescue them with. but to just get basic address school god has one. or 2 life is to bring to address. so. that. the big question is why these girls have been kidnapped but as yet no forthcoming for over 7 decades the bu

rescue operation officials say gunmen stormed the government gul science secondary school shortly after midnight firing sporadically before taking girls there believed to have been to then move them into the forest it comes just over a week after at least 42 people most of them students were abducted from a boys' school in gestate when a security guard working at the school described the moment the gunman stormed in the cheetah. as we tried to get out so we were overwhelmed so when we fired at they fired back as we continue to fight them and all of a sudden they retreated one of them left his motorcycle to escape and that's when we thought we were going to sleep and we were told to go home and now as i speak to you soldiers are in the bush fighting with them though i'm going to dresses in a forest and says that the authorities are really in a race against time to locate the children. i must've operation is underway involving ground troops as well as with the support of local vigilantes who know the terrain is under way in i don't get me and the port of surrounding that community as officials say that they want to make sure that before

a government official says gunmen stormed a secondary school in northwestern nigeria and took more than 300 girlsit's a nightmare that parents in the country have, of course, lived through before. stephanie basari with the details. >> reporter: a teenage girl just 16 years old. until friday, she was a high school student in northwestern nigeria. now khadijah and more than 300 of her classmates are missing. men armed with guns raided their school early friday morning. a government official tells cnn they arrived here at the school on about 20 motorcycles just after 1:00 a.m. hamsir was lucky. she narrowly escaped being abducted. i got afraid when i saw them running in, shouting and shooting, she says. she's afraid to ever return to school again. this man's daughter was among those taken. she believes she was grabbed in her pajamas, a hijab left behind for her mother to find. by allah's name, there is no security, she says. if there was, this would not happen. even if god brings back her daughter, she says she will never allow her to return to school. the state police say they have launched a heavi

girls who were taken from their school on friday. a government official says gunmen stormed the secondary school in northwest nigeria, parents desperates the latest kidnapping from schools in recent weeks and this is nearly after seven years after boko haram kid nnapped gis and more than 100 are still missing. and now we're spoking with an author who wrote a book about the kidnapping in 2017 and she is also a former reporter here at cnn. a pleasure to have you here. thank you for joining us. first of all, do you have anymore details about this sdish incident, was it a kidnapping by bandits or ideologues? >> thanks for having me. the way it has been described right now, these girls taken from a government border school were taken by bandits, which is the common phrasing on the part of government authorities when these things happen in northwestern nigeria. but i think the question we all have to ask ourselves, with increasing regularity of the school attacks, is it bandits or terrorism? so a game of semantics. but we know that large number of groups operate in that area and they routinely take people and dema demand ransom. today we kn

government go secondary school in john gave way in the country's northwest nearby residents say the shooters fired constantly forcing people to cower in their homes. the kidnappers took off with more than $300.00 girls police and military has launched a joint search and rescue operation. in different years or deforest. as part of our look. on his part of our continent. put the sharp rise in kidnappings in this region usually for ransom the authorities are under pressure to act the governor of niger state has ordered the closure of all secondary schools in the state. nigeria's security forces are overstretched mostly fighting the militant group boko haram in the north east of the country still they promise to do everything possible to find the missing students but for the hundreds of parents waiting for word of their children and praying that they're still alive the government's actions simply aren't enough. meanwhile saudi arabia has hit back at u.s. claims that crown a prince mohammed bin likely approved the 2800 killing of journalist jamal khashoggi the biden administration has released an intelligence report that had been classified up until now still to spite the reports conclusion washington ha

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