At Least 80 Students Missing After Latest School Raid in Nigeria

ABUJA, NIGERIA - Police in Nigeria say armed men have attacked a school in the northwest state of Kebbi, killing a police officer and abducting at least 80 students and teachers. It's the latest in a series of school kidnappings for ransom that have exposed growing insecurity in northern Nigeria.

About 250 gunmen on motorbikes invaded the government college in Yauri, Kebbi state midday Thursday. They shot sporadically, killed a police officer and abducted five lecturers along with the students.  However, one of the students with bullet wounds was dropped along the way. The attack is the latest in a string of kidnappings in northern Nigerian schools since December, and the third in the last month.