Gunmen kidnapped dozens of students from a boarding school in Nigeria, the latest in a wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren and students.
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Armed criminal gangs often attack villages to loot, steal cattle and abduct for ransom in northwest and central Nigeria, but since the start of the year they have increasingly targeted schools.
The attackers scaled a fence to break into the Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna state in the early hours of Monday, taking away most of the 165 pupils boarding there overnight.
Around 1,000 students and pupils have been abducted in different Nigerian states since December last year. Most have been released after negotiations with local officials, although some are still being held.
Monday's attack was the fourth mass school kidnap in Kaduna state since December. It came just hours after gunmen also snatched eight medical employees from a Kaduna health center, according to police.
