Nigeria’s army hunts for armed kidnappers
By Reuters
13 March 2024 |
3:29 am
Soldiers backed by police, the intelligence service, the air force and a local vigilante group are searching for armed kidnappers who abducted nearly 300 pupils from a school in the northern Kaduna state, a source has said.
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