Lagos: Gunmen from a criminal gang kidnapped 25 people and killed a staff member in an early morning raid on a northwestern Nigerian girls' secondary school on Monday, police said.

The latest attack comes more than a decade after nearly 300 girls were abducted from Chibok in the restive northeastern region and sparked international outcry.

Since then, there has been a string of other abductions involving school children.

Police on Monday said the gang armed with "sophisticated weapons, shooting sporadically, stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School" in Kebbi state at about 4:00 am (0300 GMT).

Police were deployed but "unfortunately, the suspected bandits had already scaled through the fence of the school and abducted twenty-five students from their hostel to unknown

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