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More than 300 students are still missing Monday morning after gunmen attacked the secondary school in Kankara, a city in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state.
JOHANNESBURG – The #BringBackOurBoys is trending on social media in Nigeria after the latest attack and mass kidnapping at a school.
More than 300 students are still missing Monday morning after gunmen attacked the secondary school in Kankara, a city in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state.
Motorcycle attackers broke into the government science school for children late Friday and started a shootout with security forces.
Hundreds of students scaled fences and ran into the surrounding forest.
Anxious parents await news of their children’s whereabouts as search and rescue operations continue.
The government said troops had surrounded an area in Katsina where gunmen were believed to be holding schoolchildren hostage.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, said that 10 children were reportedly held captive, while more than 300 children remained missing.
The attackers are understood to be trying to obtain ransoms.
The government has blamed the attack on the bandits, a vague term for gangs operating in the area.
How are you brother @jidesanwoolu I hope you are still RESTING IN PEACE?
the questions you fled from await you when you return from your winch self-isolation.
who gave the orders
where are the bodies#EndBadGoveranceInNigeria #BringBackOurBoys #EndSARSNew tenant of AsoRock (@AsorockT) December 14, 2020
#Securing and #BringBackOurBoys things are getting worse @MBuhari pic.twitter.com/zdgmyeb7RH
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A total of 333 students from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, remain missing.
The commander in chief, @MBuhari He has yet to address the nation about our state of insecurity.
Where is the outrage?#BringBackOurBoys #EndSARS pic.twitter.com/OwLl1SS1rsEiE Nigeria (@EiENigeria) December 14, 2020
The Minister for International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor, said she was hopeful that the children would escape unharmed.
“We sincerely hope that the early successes of the Nigerian government have indicated that they identify some of the kidnappers and that this leads to the return of those children.”
This latest attack comes just six years after 276 girls were abducted from their Chibob bedroom.
At the time, the hashtag #BringBackourGirls was widely circulating around the world.
However, about 100 of those girls are still missing.
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