
Nigeria mass kidnappings
Nigerian security forces are searching for 280 kidnapped students
In Nigeria security forces are searching for the 280 students who've been kidnapped in the town of Kuriga in the state of Kaduna.
It is not clear yet if this kidnapping is linked to the one earlier this week, where the Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped dozens of women and children in the north-east of the country.
We here from people in the country and the latest on this from our correspondent in Nigeria.
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Presenter: Krupa Padhy
(Photo: Abandoned shoes / sandals on the ground after schoolgirls were kidnapped from their school during an attack by jihadists, Dapchi, Yobe, Feb 2018. Credit: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)
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