MAGA, Nigeria — A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, the school's principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday, as hunters joined security forces in the search for the missing students in forests close to the school.

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One of the 25 schoolgirls abducted from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria's Kebbi state has escaped and returned home

Gunmen attacked the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School before dawn on Monday, taking the girls and killing a staff member

The school principal, Musa Rabi Magaji, says the student who escaped fled through forests and arrived home late Monday

He said another student was able to escape her captors shortly after the raid and was not abducted

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