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At least 25 students of a government girls’ boarding school in Nigeria were kidnapped and the vice principal killed in an attack by unknown gunmen on Monday, police said.

Reuters quoted police spokesperson Nafiu Abubakar Kotarkoshi as saying that the assailants, armed with rifles and reportedly using coordinated tactics, stormed Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga town around 4am (local time), engaging police in a gunfight before scaling the perimeter fence and seizing the students.

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

Police said additional tactical units, soldiers and local vigilantes have been deployed to search the suspected escape rou

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