🔗 Share this article Instructor Fatally Shot and 25 Girls Abducted in Armed Clash at School in Nigeria Schools in northern Nigeria have often been targeted for weapon-wielding factions Armed assailants have killed a teacher and abducted at least 25 students in an attack on a female high school in the northwestern part of Nigeria, authorities have confirmed. The armed faction invaded the comprehensive secondary school for girls in the Maga locality within Kebbi State at approximately 04:00 local time on the start of the week, officials stated. The attackers "confronted officers on duty in a gun duel" before scaling the perimeter fence and seizing the students from their hostel, authorities disclosed. One member of staff was lost their life while safeguarding the students. A second sustained gunshot wounds and is now receiving treatment. Observers recounted a sizeable number of assailants, known locally as bandits, who appeared discharging weapons intermittently to create fear. Community members informed journalists that the attackers afterwards forced a contingent of young women into adjacent wilderness. The police said they had deployed "extra specialized police forces, in coordination with armed forces and local protection units" to the area. A coordinated search and rescue operation is underway in surrounding forests and suspected escape routes. In the last several years, schools in northern Nigeria have increasingly been targeted for weapon-carrying factions, who routinely perform seizures to request monetary settlements or secure advantages in discussions with officials. The attack in Kebbi State highlights the persistent security crisis troubling the locality, leaving families in Maga in a state of fearful exhaustion as they wait and hope for their children's secure homecoming. Security crisis in northern Nigeria has worsened considerably in recent months, with learning centers suffering the most of the unrest. Essential Information Weapon-carrying assailants attacked a school for young women in the northwestern part of Nigeria One teacher was killed while protecting students At least 25 female students were taken from their living quarters Security forces have begun a saving effort in adjacent locations Learning center raids have escalated in regularity in Nigeria's northern regions