From sporadic shootings to planned terror attacks, educational establishments around the world have been targeted. Then, as we have seen in Nigeria, there are cases of mass abductions of schoolchildren. One of the most recent was the awful incident that took place in Nigeria’s Niger State in November of this year. Gunmen attacked St Mary’s Catholic School and abducted about 303 children, as well as 12 teachers. This is not the first time this type of mass abduction has taken place in the region. In 2014, an incident that caught the attention of global media outlets was the abduction of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram from a secondary school in Chibok.
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