Nigerian police are hunting for
three teenage girls abducted from their boarding school on the outskirts of
Lagos city by heavily armed men.
Kidnappings for ransom occasionally
occur in Nigeria's commercial capital, but this is the first time a school in
the city has been attacked by gunmen.
The girls were taken from a private
co-educational secondary school on Monday evening.
It is nearly two years since more
than 200 girls were kidnapped from a boarding school in the north-eastern town
of Chibok by militant fighters behind the Islamist insurgency in that region.
Despite military advances against
the Boko Haram group over the past year, the Chibok girls have yet to be found.
Lagos police spokesperson Dolapo
Badmus told the BBC a search to rescue the girls taken from the Babington
Macaulay Junior Seminary School was under way.
From local media reports it is not
clear whether the girls were kidnapped from their dormitory or in a nearby block
where they were studying.
Some witnesses reported that shots
were fired, making it hard for the unarmed security guards to intervene.
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