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Authorities Investigate Kidnapping of Three Teachers in Northern Nigeria

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   Authorities in northern Nigeria are investigating the armed kidnapping
   of three teachersfrom aprimary school,four days after dozens of
   students were taken from another school in Kaduna state.

   The students ran away asgunmenarrived at theirschool in the
   townofRemaon motorbikesearly Monday and tookthe teachers awayKaduna
   state's security commissioner, SamuelAruwansaidduring a press briefing.

   Initially, twostudents thought to be missing werelocatedafter the
   attack at the Rema Primary School,locatedin Kaduna state's Birnin Gwari
   Local Government Area.

   The teachers'abductionis the sixthtime so called bandits kidnapped
   orattemptedto take someone from a schoolin less than three months in
   northwest and central Nigeria, mostly by criminals seeking ransom.

   The military is currently seeking [1]39 students kidnapped last
   Thursday fromanother school inKaduna.

   Authorities said the military rescued 180 other students from
   theFederal College of ForestryMechanization, a research institute in
   the country.

   The national government has been critical of localauthoritiespaying
   ransoms in the kidnappings, withoutprovidingasuccessfulremedy to the
   problem.

   Several schools in northern and central Nigeria have closed for
   security reasons.

   Theseemingly endlessspike in the numberof abductionscaptured global
   attention whenmembers of theextremist group Boko Haramkidnapped270
   girls fromNigeria's northeasternschool in Chibok in 2014.

   An estimated100 ofthe girls are still unaccounted for.

References

   1. https://www.voanews.com/africa/nigeria-gunmen-abduct-dozens-students-college-raid

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