SCHOOL ABDUCTION:- Gunmen kidnap students in Niger state

 Nigerian officials say gunmen have kidnapped many students from an Islamic school in Nigeria - the latest in a series of such attacks on schools.

Authorities in Niger state confirmed to BBC that gunmen had seized an unknown number of students from the school in the town of Tegina on Sunday.

A teacher told BBC that 150 students were missing, while other reports put the figure at about 200.

Abductions finished for ransom are increasingly more not unusual in northern states.

In February nearly 300 women were taken by means of armed guys from a boarding school in Jangebe, Zamfara nation. Most were later freed.

In the cutting-edge incident, witnesses quoted via This Day news website said gunmen using on motorcycles stormed the metropolis and opened fire indiscriminately. As humans fled the attackers went to the Islamic faculty and seized the youngsters. The school is attended by means of boys and girls, elderly six to 18.

Authorities said  human beings have been shot during the assault and one had considering that died. A wide variety of human beings journeying in a automobile had been also reportedly kidnapped.

BBC Nigeria correspondent Mayeni Jones says kidnapping for ransom has end up more common throughout Nigeria in current months.

The assault in Tegina comes an afternoon after 14 humans kidnapped from a college in the neighboring state of Kaduna had been released.

Tegina is likewise no longer some distance from the town of Kagara, wherein 27 students were abducted in February.

There had been at the least six kidnappings of students in north-west and valuable Nigeria on account that December, our correspondent says, and greater than 800 college students and workforce were kidnapped.

The 2014 kidnap of 276 schoolgirls in the north-japanese town of Chibok by means of Islamist militants Boko Haram introduced worldwide attention to the scourge of raids on faculties in Nigeria, but extra recent attacks are suspected to be the work of crook gangs.