140 students missing after gunmen raid Nigerian school

Police said gunmen shooting wildly attacked the Bethel Baptist High School in the south of Kaduna state overnight.

About 140 students are missing after armed men raided a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Monday, and police said they were in hot pursuit alongside military personnel. The attack is the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria, which authorities have attributed to armed bandits seeking ransom payments. Police said gunmen shooting wildly attacked the Bethel Baptist High School in the south of Kaduna state overnight.