China News Service, May 31. According to Agence France-Presse, Nigerian police and residents said that on May 30, the town of Taegina, Niger State, in central Nigeria, was attacked by militants, resulting in one death.
In addition, an unknown number of students were kidnapped in a school in the area.
According to reports, a spokesman for the Niger State Police said that the assailants rode motorcycles to Taegina town on the same day, where they shot and killed a resident and wounded another.
Afterwards, they kidnapped students from the school.
The Niger State Government stated on social networking sites that there were about 200 students in the school at the time of the attack, and the "number of people kidnapped has not yet been determined."
According to reports, an unnamed school official was quoted as saying that the attackers initially took away more than 100 students, "but later, they sent back to school the children they thought were too young. (These students) were 4 years old to Between the age of 12." The state government stated on social networking sites that the attackers released 11 students who were "too young to travel far."
In recent months, there have been successive armed attacks in Nigeria, including several kidnappings of students.
Just one day ago, 14 students from a university in northwestern Nigeria were released after being imprisoned for 40 days.