KANKARA, Nigeria — Parents converged on a secondary school in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state on Sunday, begging authorities to save hundreds of boys abducted by gunmen.
More than 300 students from the all-boys Government Science school in Kankara taken Friday night remained missing on Sunday.
“We will not rest until we see the end of this,” state spokesman Abdul Labaran told Reuters.
Labaran said military and intelligence chiefs were in Kankara to lead the rescue. While 321 students were missing, he said some could have gone home to other states.
All state schools in Katsina were ordered to close because officials did not know the attackers’ motives, the education …
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