Nigerian parents urge more action to get kidnapped children back

Gunmen seized at least 136 students from an Islamic school in Tegina town in Niger state.

Parents have converged on an Islamic school in Nigeria’s Niger state, pleading to authorities to step up efforts to save tens of students kidnapped by gunmen. In the latest school kidnapping to hit northern Nigeria, at least 136 students were seized on Sunday from Salihu Tanko Islamic School in the town of Tegina, according to the owner of the school. A Niger state police spokesperson said the kidnapping was carried out by “armed bandits on board motorcycles in their numbers”. The gunmen fired “indiscriminately and abducted a yet to be ascertained number of children”, he said, adding that the gunmen shot one person dead in the process.