In a tragic incident early Monday morning, armed assailants attacked the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, Nigeria. The attackers, reportedly using coordinated tactics and carrying rifles, engaged in a shootout with police before breaching the school’s perimeter and abducting 25 female students.
Vice Principal Hassan Yakubu Makuku was fatally shot while trying to resist the gunmen, and another staff member sustained injuries. Security forces—including tactical police units, military personnel, and local vigilantes—have launched a search-and-rescue operation across nearby forests and suspected escape routes.
This marks yet another mass kidnapping in Nigeria’s northwest, a region plagued by frequent abductions by armed gangs seeking ransom. The incident echoes the infamous 2014 Chibok abduction by Boko Haram, where 270 schoolgirls were taken, many of whom remain missing.
Source: 3news
