Gunmen seize over 70 high-school students in northwest Nigeria

Zamfara state police say rescue operation is ongoing to free 73 pupils abducted from school in Kaya village.

Nigerian police say gunmen have abducted more than 70 students in the country’s northwest, in the latest in a series of school attacks targeting pupils. Zamfara state police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement that a large group of attackers stormed the Government Day Secondary School in the remote village of Kaya on Wednesday morning, seizing 73 students. “The abduction followed the invasion of the school by large numbers of armed bandits,” he added.