By Editorial,
At least 28 of the nearly 300 schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen have escaped, Nigeria’s Kaduna state governor has told BBC News.
Nigeria’s army is leading a desperate search for the children taken in the northern town of Kuriga on Thursday.
Troops are working with police and local search teams to comb the forests within Kaduna and neighbouring states.
The kidnapping is the biggest mass abduction from a school since 2021.
Gangs of motorcycle-riding armed men took nearly 300 primary and secondary school children between the ages of eight and 15, school authorities and parents said.
The kidnappings followed women and children taken from a remote town in Borno state the day before.
President Bola Tinubu has since smpanthised with the affected families and that he was confident the victims will be rescued. ENDS