Gunmen attacked a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria early on Monday. (File Photo)

Gunmen attacked a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria early on Monday, abducting 25 schoolgirls and killing a staff member, police told Reuters.

The attack happened at about 4 a.m. at a high school in Maga, in Kebbi state’s Danko-Wasagu area. Police spokesperson Nafi’u Abubakar Kotarkoshi said the assailants “were armed with sophisticated weapons” and exchanged fire with the school’s guards before taking the girls from their dormitories.

Kotarkoshi said a staff member was killed and another was injured in the shooting. “A combined team is currently combing suspected escape routes and surrounding forests in a coordinated search and rescue operation aimed at recovering the abducted students and ar

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