4 h. ago Nigeria reels after 215 children taken in second mass school abduction in a week

Twelve teachers also kidnapped from Catholic school amid threats from Trump to intervene over ‘Christian genocide’Unknown gunmen have abducted 215 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, the second mass abduction in the country in a week.The latest kidnapping, in Papiri community in Niger state, came against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s threat to intervene militarily to end a “Christian genocide”, which the Nigerian government has denied is happening. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Nigeria school horror as gunmen kidnaps 215 children and 12 teachers in mass abduction

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6 h. ago Nigeria school horror as gunmen kidnap 215 children and 12 teachers in mass abduction

Nigeria has seen its second mass abduction in a week after 215 students and 12 teachers taken from St Mary's School in Agwara this morning (November 21), just days after 25 girls were taken

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60 h. ago 20 children injured after 'mass casualty incident' in school as nine rushed to hospital

Police and other emergency service crews in Germany have raced to Raderthal School in Cologne after pepper spray was deployed, sparking a "mass casualty incident" alert

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64 h. ago Nigeria's president promises to intensify efforts to rescue 24 abducted schoolgirls

Nigeria's president says authorities are intensifying efforts to rescue 24 schoolgirls abducted by gunmen earlier this week

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3 w. ago Kidnap rape hell of woman abducted by Afghan man and his three friends, beaten and used as a sex slave for a week and forced to have her tormentor's name tattooed across her stomach

In 2023, the then 21-year-old was kidnapped, gagged and raped for several days by her ex-boyfriend, a 33-year-old Afghan man named locally as Jaser A.

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