On the evening of December 11, a group of bandits attacked a boarding school in northern Nigeria. The attackers have kidnapped several dozen students, according to the newspaper This Day.
As specified, the incident took place in the city of Kankara in the state of Katsina. The interlocutor told the publication that unknown persons arrived on motorcycles and staged indiscriminate shooting. He noted that it is difficult to name the exact number of the abducted, but assured that there were several dozen. It is alleged that the children who survived the invasion were forced to leave the school at night. The parents of the missing are trying to find out their whereabouts.
The attack came 48 hours after the country's president, Muhammadu Bukhari, arrived in the state. The head of state arrived in his hometown of Duar, planning to spend a week there.
Earlier, the website of the medical and tourism organization International SOS published an updated Travel Risk Map, indicating the most dangerous travel destinations in 2021. Analysts noted that there are a total of 14 countries of “extreme” risk. Among them were Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, Egypt, as well as parts of Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ukraine, Pakistan and Iraq.
