Parents fear for kidnapped children, some as young as 4, after latest school raid in Nigeria
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The father of some of the children abducted at gunpoint at a school in north central Nigeria has told CNN how four of his eight kids were taken by gunmen on Sunday. The youngest is just 5 years old.
Murtala Muhammadu, 48, a local businessman in Tegina, a remote town in Niger State's Rafi district, told CNN on Tuesday that his 5-year-old son and three daughters aged 6 and 7 were among the more than 150 schoolchildren kidnapped from an Islamic evening school by the armed assailants in Niger State.More Related News
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