ABUJA - More than 300 schoolgirls were abducted by gunmen in northwest Nigeria on Friday in the country's latest mass kidnapping, and a rescue bid was under way, regional police said.
Zamfara State Police Command, working in collaboration with the military,"commenced a joint search and rescue operations with a view to rescuing the 317 students," police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement. Heavily-armed gangs known locally as"bandits" have stepped up attacks in northwest and central Nigeria in recent years, kidnapping for ransom, raping and pillaging.
#BringBackOurGirls: The abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in Chibok launched a worldwide campaign for their releaseThese incidents have triggered outrage as well as painful memories of the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by jihadist group Boko Haram in Chibok, in northeastern Borno state, in April 14 2015.
You are racist
Will there ever be peace in the world? Is it because of power that makes people to be so heartless?
We woke now! Turning Africans against each other! It won't work... We still on that racist journalist of yours!!!
It’s funny how journalists love following stories looking for answers but when the people need answers from the journalists they say nothing!
Sounds like a human trafficking operation. It's normally the industry of the Global elite
What’s happening from within?
racistLindsayDentlinger must fall
Not again!!!
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