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Kidnappers abduct schoolchildren in northwest Nigeria

An empty classroom at the Government Science College in the Nigerian state of Niger, where 42 people were kidnapped by gunmen last week. [Courtesy]

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a number of schoolgirls from the town of Jangebe in northwest Nigeria early on Friday, a state spokesman said, the second such kidnapping in little over a week.

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