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Dec
15
2020
By The African Mirror
Boys escaped through forest after gunmen abducted their friends at Nigeria school

Boys escaped through forest after gunmen abducted their friends at Nigeria school

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ISMAIL ABBA and AFOLABI SOTUNDE USAMA Aminu was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape when gunman abducted more than 300 pupils from his school in northwestern Nigeria. "When I decided to run they brought a knife to slaughter me but I ran away quickly," he said, sitting on a mat and speaking softly as he described how he had been in bed at the all-boys school in Kankara when he heard gunshots on Friday night. At first, he said, the boys thought the commotion was from soldiers trying to protect them, but the attackers, armed with AK-47s,…
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Dec
14
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigerian parents’ prayer for missing 300 kidnapped pupils

Nigerian parents’ prayer for missing 300 kidnapped pupils

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PARENTS converged on a secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Katsina state yesterday, begging authorities to save hundreds of boys abducted by gunmen. More than 300 students from the all-boys Government Science school in Kankara taken Friday night have remained missing. "We will not rest until we see the end of this," state spokesman Abdul Labaran told Reuters. Labaran said military and intelligence chiefs were in Kankara to lead the rescue. While 321 students were missing, he said some could have gone home to other states. All state schools in Katsina were ordered to close because officials did not know the…
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