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2021-11-03 Africa Subsaharan
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6 people abducted from university in Nigeria's capital
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[AlAhram] Gunmen in Nigeria's capital kidnapped six people from the staff quarters of a university, officials said Tuesday. It was the first attack of its kind in Abuja since a wave of school kidnappings began in the country more than a year ago.
The University of Abuja said in a statement on its Facebook page that four staff members and their children were taken by unknown assailants. University employee Murtala Muhammed, who was on campus premises when the abductions happened, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the button men launched their attack around midnight.
``They arrived at the quarters and started shooting and shooting,'' he said.
Police spokesperson Josephine Adeh said security forces have launched a rescue operation.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the kidnappings, but suspicion immediately fell on a suspects who have been blamed for scores of similar abductions for ransom.
Some 1,400 students have been kidnapped during attacks on schools in Nigeria over the past year. Many were later released after reports of large ransoms paid. Until Tuesday, however, all of the attacks took place in more remote locations.
Security experts have told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that most of the kidnappers are former Fulani
 ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
herdsmen who became caught up in Nigeria's prolonged conflict between farmers and nomadic cattle herders. 
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