Nigeria abduction: At least 28 schoolchildren escape captors - BBC News

Nigeria continues to search for nearly 300 schoolchildren taken in the northern town of Kuriga.

2 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, ReutersImage caption, A boy holds a sign to protest against the kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolchildren this weekBy Chris Ewokor & Andre Rhoden-Paulin Kaduna and in LondonAt 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.

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