Nigerian police say 25 girls have been abducted from a secondary school in Kebbi state. Photo: AP PHOTO

Gunmen have attacked a government girls' boarding school in Nigeria's Kebbi State, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, police said, in the latest mass kidnapping in the country's northwest.

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The assailants, armed with rifles and reportedly using coordinated tactics, stormed Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga town around 4am local time on Monday, engaging police in a gunfight before scaling the perimeter fence and seizing the students, p

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