Nigerian police said that armed men kidnapped, yesterday evening, dozens of children from a Quranic school in the north of the country.
There are fears that up to 200 children have been kidnapped.
Gunmen attacked the Saliho Tanko Islamic School in the town of Tigina, Niger state, northern Nigeria.
According to a police spokesman, police forces were deployed in the area to search for and rescue the kidnapped.
The police said in a statement that “armed bandits on motorbikes stormed the town of Tijena and opened fire randomly, and kidnapped a number of children.”
Nigerian media reported that the militants kidnapped up to 200 children.
Gunmen kidnapped 27 students, and killed one of them, in an operation in the same area in February.
