• Nigeria: school attacked, over 80 students kidnapped

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    Over 100 children kidnapped by the Koranic school

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05 July 2021A script that often repeats that of mass kidnappings in the African state by criminal groups. After the kidnapping of 80 people in Kebbi state in June, today an armed commando raided a Christian Protestant Baptist high school, and kidnapped at least 140 students in Kaduna, northwestern Nigeria. This was reported by a teacher from Bethel Baptist High School, Emmanuel Paul, adding that another 25 students managed to escape the kidnapping. A police officer said he had no data on the exact number of students kidnapped. At least eight people were kidnapped in a medical center yesterday in Kano. According to a witness quoted by the BBC, however, the kidnapped in Kano are 12, including three small children and a teenager.



Another attack yesterday afternoon 

Also in Kaduna yesterday afternoon another assault on the Saye Tuberculosis and Leprosy Health Center. After a "heavy fire fight" with officers, local police spokesman Mohammed Jalige said, "eight people were kidnapped", presumably for the purpose of obtaining a ransom. Local sources report that 15 people were abducted, including two nurses and their child. The attack would have taken place on two fronts. On the one hand, a commando would have made the police officers guarding the center flee, on the other a group penetrated the dormitories of the health center.



The bands

The kidnappers belong to the criminal groups that terrorize parts of northwestern and central Nigeria. they attack villages, steal livestock and kidnap people for ransom. Most are driven by purely economic reasons, although some have sworn allegiance to jihadist organizations in the north-east of the country.



The kidnappings and the reactions

Since December, 730 children and adolescents have been kidnapped in this area of ​​the African country. In March, the president of the local association of parents of pupils denounced the inaction of the authorities of the state of Kaduna, which prohibited any negotiations with the bandits. "We will not give them a cent, they will not make any profits in the state of Kaduna," warned the governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai in an interview on local television in early April.