Nigeria: Gunmen kidnap hundreds of schoolboys

Armed men have abducted hundreds of students along with some of their teachers after attacking their school in central Nigeria. The gunmen, wearing military uniforms, stormed the Government Science College (GSC) in “huge numbers” in the town of Kagara late on Tuesday, officials said on Wednesday. One student was killed in the attack, they said. The officials said the gunmen belonged to criminal gangs, who are locally referred to only as bandits. “Bandits went into GSC Kagara last night and kidnapped hundreds of students and their teachers,” an official told our correspondant. “One of the kidnapped staff and some students managed to…