On Monday morning, 25 girls were abducted from a school in Maga, Kebbi State, Nigeria. Along with the 25 girls abducted the vice principal Hassan Yakubu Makuku. At around 4 A.M. the men stormed the school heavily armed. There was some exchange with gun fire before the girls were abducted.
There was few survivors, one student who escaped the initial kidnapping managing to escape from the men and they arrived home hours after the kidnapping. Another student escaped the gunmen minutes after the raid.
In order to find the girls they have many men searching out for them. They have security teams sweep nearby forests where gangs often hide. They are also finding possible escape routes and trying to move fast to find these girls.
Nafi’u Abubakar Korarkoshi, police spokesman states in an interviews with Associated Press “A combined team is currently combing suspected escape routes and surrounding forests in a coordinated search and rescue operation aimed at recovering the abducted students and arresting the perpetrators,”
They don’t wanna name any groups until they have a clear and precise knowledge of who committed this tragedy. They also don’t want to feul speculations. Officials believe though that they are just targeting children because they are vulnerable.
No group has taken responsibility for the kidnapping and murder. However, their is speculation on one of the several gangs who have been targeting the Nigeria schools. There is a growing trend in mass abductions targeting schools in Nigeria’s northwestern region. The groups running the region right now are armed bandit groups like Boko Haram or ISIS.
Over a decade there has been 1,500 students seized from schools in Northern Nigeria. This suggest a trend starting and a way to draw attention toward these terrorist groups. This is become repeated because these groups are getting away with it from not prosecuting the attackers.
