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One of the 25 schoolgirls kidnapped from a dormitory in Kebbi state, northwestern Nigeria, has managed to escape and return home, the school principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Armed men stormed a high school before dawn on Monday, capturing 25 girls and killing a staff member. According to principal Musa Rabi Magaji, the girl who escaped made her way out of the forest and reached home late Monday, just hours after the abduction at the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School.
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Magaji added that another student—who wasn’t among the 25 officially confirmed abducted—also managed to flee in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
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