Kebbi, Nov 18 (V7N) — At least 25 students have been abducted and a teacher killed in an armed attack on the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, early Monday morning, according to local police and witnesses.

Armed gunmen engaged police on duty around 4 a.m. before scaling the school’s barbed wire fence, entering the dormitories, and abducting the students. Another teacher was injured during the attack and is currently receiving treatment in hospital.

Witnesses reported that the attackers, locally referred to as ‘bandits,’ fired indiscriminately to create panic and then took the girls into a nearby forest. Police, military units, and local volunteers have launched a coordinated search and rescue operation in the surrounding forests and along possible escape routes.

Security analysts say such attacks in northern Nigeria are often aimed at securing ransom or negotiating with the government, despite a ban on ransom payments. This is the first major school kidnapping since last March, when over 200 students were abducted in Kaduna State.

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