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Search continues for hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/10/search-continues-kidnapped-nigerian-schoolchildren
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
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Nigerian security forces continued to search forests and set up roadblocks in the north-west of the country on Sunday in an attempt to find hundreds of kidnapped schoolchildren, but observers said combing the woodland expanses could take weeks.
More than 280 children aged between seven and 18 were taken from a school in Kuriga on Thursday in one of the biggest mass-abductions in recent months in Nigeria’s turbulent north-west.
Children who had escaped the kidnappers in Kuriga described their ordeal after being taken from their school in a quiet agrarian village about 60 miles outside the north-west city of Kaduna.
More than 3,500 people have been abducted across Nigeria in the last year, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project, cited by Associated Press.
The gangs are “adapting their strategies and further entrenching themselves in the north-west through extortion”, James Barnett, a researcher on west Africa at the US-based Hudson Institute, told the Associated Press.
In April 2014 Boko Haram militants triggered an international outcry by kidnapping more than 250 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno state.
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