People attend the burial of Monday Doma, a student that was killed after gunmen stormed a Government Science College Kagara and kidnapped 27 others, in Niger state, Nigeria February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Muhammad Danladi Ibrahim NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
BAUCHI/KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen killed a student in an overnight attack on a boarding school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger on Wednesday and kidnapped 42 people including 27 students, the state governor said.
The assailants stormed the Government Science secondary school in the Kagara district of Niger state at around 2 a.m., overwhelming the school's security detail, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello said.
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