on Monday condemned the attack on the school and called "for the immediate and unconditional release of the abducted children and for their safe return to their families," in a statement issued in New York.More than 1100 people have been killed by bandits in an escalation of attacks during the first half of the year, according to Amnesty International, which said the government was failing to bring the attackers to justice.
While several groups of bandits are active there, the groups known to kidnap for ransom have links to the jihadist group Boko Haram and its breakaway faction, the Islamic State's West Africa Province, known as ISWAP. Nigerian police say that hundreds of students are missing after gunmen attacked the secondary school in the country's northwestern Katsina state.
Both Boko Haram and ISWAP have in the past carried out mass abduction of students. The most serious school attack took place in April 2014, when more than 270 schoolgirls were abducted from their dormitory at the Government Secondary School in Chibok in northeastern Borno State. About 100 of the girls are still missing.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)