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This is Abubakar Shekau. Our brothers are behind the kidnapping in Katsina, ”said a voice claiming to be the leader of the infamous jihadist group, in a voicemail sent to news agencies in Nigeria.
If the information is correct, this is a new event similar to that of Chibok 2014, when a mass kidnapping of schoolgirls generated worldwide attention and condemnation.
Many question marks surround However, the new act reported, which is said to have taken place at the Government Science Secondary School in Katsina State late last Friday night. Many of the students, who are roughly the same age as the Swedish junior high and high school, had been in bed when the “bandits” arrived at the scene.
The armed perpetrators are said to have threatened the students to get as many as possible.
– They told us not to run. We started going against them, Muhammad Abubakar, 15, tells Reuters news agency, but adds that there were so many people that he and his friends still saw their chance.
– So we turned and ran. We jumped over a fence and went through the forest to the nearest village.
Many students are informed they are still missing, although many may have gone home without the knowledge of the police. The authorities in the area are talking about hundreds of kidnapped children. But he questions how the perpetrators in that case were able to take everyone with them because they themselves got on motorcycles.
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