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.

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, police spokesperson Nafiu Abubakar Kotarkoshi said.

Vice Principal Hassan Yakubu Makuku was shot dead while resisting the attackers, and another staff member sustained gunshot injuries, he added.

Police said additional tactical units, soldiers and local vigilantes have been deployed to comb suspected escape rout

See Full Page