{"id":75749,"date":"2021-05-31T12:17:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=75749"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T13:00:12","slug":"gunmen-kidnap-about-200-children-from-a-quranic-school-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/75749-gunmen-kidnap-about-200-children-from-a-quranic-school-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kidnap about 200 children from a Quranic school in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f3\u06f1_\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f5\u06f8-\u06f4\u06f3-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f3\u06f1_\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f5\u06f8-\u06f4\u06f3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f3\u06f1_\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f5\u06f8-\u06f4\u06f3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f3\u06f1_\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f5\u06f8-\u06f4\u06f3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f3\u06f1_\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f5\u06f8-\u06f4\u06f3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f3\u06f1_\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f5\u06f8-\u06f4\u06f3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigerian police said that armed men kidnapped, yesterday evening, dozens of children from a Quranic school in the north of the country.<br>There are fears that up to 200 children have been kidnapped.<br>Gunmen attacked the Saliho Tanko Islamic School in the town of Tigina, Niger state, northern Nigeria.<br>According to a police spokesman, police forces were deployed in the area to search for and rescue the kidnapped.<br>The police said in a statement that &#8220;armed bandits on motorbikes stormed the town of Tijena and opened fire randomly, and kidnapped a number of children.&#8221;<br>Nigerian media reported that the militants kidnapped up to 200 children.<br>Gunmen kidnapped 27 students, and killed one of them, in an operation in the same area in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":76004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31,30],"tags":[67,2054],"class_list":["post-75749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","category-world","tag-nigeria","tag-quranic-school"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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