Hundreds of students are missing after armed men attack a school in Nigeria. In the attack on Friday on the state high school in Kankara in the northern region of Katsina, the attackers shot around with automatic weapons, as a police spokesman said. Eyewitnesses reported that numerous children were abducted.
Around 200 children and young people on the boarding school premises were able to escape in the midst of exchanges of fire between the attackers and the police. Hundreds, however, disappeared; there was still no trace of them on Sunday despite a large-scale search with the help of the armed forces.
The Nigerian “Daily Post” spoke today of 600 kidnapped students. The newspaper „Punch“ reported on protests in Katsina on Sunday, which were also directed against the government. Demonstrators shouted „We want our children back“ and „We want security in Kankara“.
