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Gunmen in Nigeria seize eight students in latest kidnapping

Gunmen in Nigeria seize eight students in latest kidnapping

ARDO HAZZAD GUNMEN in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state kidnapped eight secondary school students coming from school along with an unknown number of others, authorities said, the latest in a wave of such abductions. Armed gangs operating mostly in remote parts of northwest Nigeria have carried out violent attacks against villagers, schools and motorists, abducting hundreds for ransom. Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for internal security in Kaduna, said gunmen on Monday seized eight students from Awon Government Secondary School in Kachia local government area. The gang had earlier kidnapped the other people. It was not immediately clear where the students were…
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Parents of Nigeria kidnap victims plead for help

Parents of Nigeria kidnap victims plead for help

LIBBY GEORGE and BOSAN YAKUSAK WHEN Linda Peter last spoke to her daughter, the brief phone call left her relieved the teenager was alive but distraught because she could not pay any ransom demanded. Peter's 18-year-old daughter, Jennifer, was among 39 students abducted by gunmen on March 11 from a forestry college in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna. The captors, who called from the teenager's phone, threatened to kill the male captives and force females into marriage but did not specify the ransom sum sought. "The government is not doing anything to help these children," said Peter, a widow…
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