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Nigeria sends troops to rescue more than 250 kidnapped schoolchildren

Nigeria sends troops to rescue more than 250 kidnapped schoolchildren

President sends in military after mass abduction from school in north-western state of Kaduna

Nigeria’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has sent troops to rescue more than 250 children kidnapped by gunmen from a school in the north-west of the country in one of the largest mass abductions in recent years.

The mass kidnapping in Kaduna state was the second in a week in Nigeria, where heavily armed criminal gangs on motorbikes target victims in villages and schools and along highways in search of ransom payments.

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