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GUNMEN have allegedly kidnapped babies and nurses from hospital, as militants snatch 140 children from a Nigerian school.
The horror incident – the latest in a wave of abductions targeting schoolchildren and students – took place at the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Centre in Zaria, early on Monday morning.
Heavily-armed criminal gangs frequently ambush villages and proceed to steal cattle, loot homes and abduct for ransom, in northwest and central Nigeria.
Since the start of the year, they have increasingly targeted schools and colleges.
Gunmen scaled a fence to break into the Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna state in the early hours of Monday, taking away most of the 165 pupils boarding overnight.
“The kidnappers took away 140 students, only 25 students escaped. We still have no idea where the students were taken,” Emmanuel Paul, a teacher at the school told AFP.
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