MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped at least 227 students and teachers at a Catholic school in the northwest on Friday, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said, ...

Students and teachers were taken captive from a Catholic school in the latest in a wave of such attacks in the country. By Ruth Maclean and Ismail Alfa Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief, ...

Gunmen kidnapped 25 girls from a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State and killed at least one staffer, authorities said Monday. The schoolgirls were taken around 4 a.m., and no group immediately ...

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Gunmen attacked a government girls’ boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State early on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, police said, in the latest mass kidnapping in ...

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Glenolden police are investigating an incident in which a young man was reported to have been abducted and assaulted Wednesday night. Police shared a community safety alert on social media Thursday, ...

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A child kidnapping victim who has grown up to become an NYPD recruit was reunited at a department ceremony Thursday with the two retired cops who tracked down his creepy abductor — and whose heroic ...

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — A Deerfield Beach woman faced a judge on Wednesday, one day after deputies arrested her after saying she tried to kidnap a 5-year-old boy from a gas station in the city.

Police in Texas are searching for the suspect who attempted to kidnap the girl. A 13-year-old girl in Texas bit a man twice after he allegedly attempted to kidnap her while she was walking to school, ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Galveston police say they're searching for a man who attempted to kidnap a 13-year-old girl on her walk to school on Monday morning. Police said just before 7 a.m., teachers ...