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2021-02-18 Africa Subsaharan
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Gunmen kill student, abduct more than 40 people in Nigeria
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[AlAhram] The button men chased the students across the school and shot one of them in the head as he tried to escape, the school's head prefect said
Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria's north-central Niger State early Wednesday, killing at least one student and abducting more than 40 people including students and teachers, according to officials.
The button men, thought to be bandidos,
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...the so-called bandits are believed to launch attacks from Rugu forest, which straddles Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states... fatally shot one student during the attack at Government Science College, Kagara. They also kidnapped 27 students, three staff members and 12 relatives, state Gov. Abubakar Sani Bello said.
Bello closed Niger State's schools and called on the federal government for assistance.
The button men chased the students across the school and shot one of them in the head as he tried to escape, the school's head prefect, Awal Abdulrahman, said.
``They attacked the first two houses (hostels) by the wall . They entered the house and chased students who tried to escape . They followed us shooting and in the process shot one of us in the head,'' he said.
A teacher at the school, Aliyu Isah, said the button men entered the school premises at about 1:30 a.m. dressed in military camouflage and forced him to lead them to the students' sleeping quarters where he and some students were tied up in pairs.
``They put me in front to lead them to the school hostel ... They told the students not to worry, that they were soldiers,'' he said, adding that some wore camouflage, army uniforms, and one wore a black coat.
``They gathered all the students outside but some ran into the bush,'' he said. ``I was thinking I would not be able to escape but luckily enough, Allah gave me a way to escape from them and I assisted the students that we were tied together ... I ran toward the football field and they started shooting.''
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari directed the armed forces and police to ensure the immediate and safe return of all the people kidnapped, presidential front man Garba Shehu said in a statement.
Buhari dispatched a team of security chiefs to coordinate the rescue operation and to meet with state officials, community leaders and parents and staff members of the college, according to Shehu.
``President Buhari has assured of the support of his administration to the armed forces in their brave struggle against terrorism and banditry and urged them to do all that can be done to bring an end to this saga and avoid such cowardly attacks on schools in the future,'' Shehu said.
The incident comes two months after button men kidnapped more than 300 schoolboys from a secondary school in Kankara, in northwestern Nigeria's Katsina State. The students were later released.
On Sunday, a button men attacked a bus belonging to the Niger State Transport Authority and kidnapped at least 21 passengers.
On Tuesday, a statement from the office of state Commissioner of Information Mohammed Idris said 10 people had been freed from the kidnappers. Ransom was not paid to secure their release, he said.
No group has grabbed credit for the college abductions in Kagara. Nigeria's jihadist rebels, Boko Haram
 ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
, are opposed to western education and in the past have carried out mass abductions of schoolchildren as part of its violent mostly peaceful campaign to establish an Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in Nigeria.
Several highly organized gangs, locally called bandidos, often abduct students for money.
At least 650 students had been in the school when it was attacked late Tuesday by gunmen believed to belong to criminal gangs.
Heavily-armed gangs known locally as "bandits" active in northwest and central Nigeria have stepped up attacks in recent years, kidnapping for ransom, raping and pillaging. 
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