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Breaking: Terrorists abduct 300 schoolgirls in Zamfara
About 300 female students have been abducted from Government Day Secondary School, Jangebe at Talata Mafara Local Government Area in Zamfara State.
BBC Hausa reports that the unidentified terrorists stormed the school in the early hours of Friday to abduct the school children.
The father of one of the students and a teacher at the school when the students were abducted confirmed the incident to the BBC.
The Zamfara state government have not yet commented on the matter.
This abduction is another case of increasing school attacks in the northern region.
Discussions are still ongoing for the release of the 42 abducted students and staff of Government Service College, Kagara, Niger State.
Recall that Zamfara Governor Bello Matawalle has been at the forefront of negotiating with the terrorists operating in the region and receiving “repentant bandits”.
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