Nigeria: gunmen kidnap 15 children in dawn raid on school

Attackers force their way into school days after 300 children abducted in different Nigerian state

Gunmen kidnapped at least 15 pupils from a school in Nigeria in a dawn raid on Saturday, days after about 300 children were abducted in another armed raid.

The gunmen forced their way into the school premises in the Sokoto village of Gidan Bakuso, in the country's north-west, and started firing shots sporadically, waking and causing panic among the pupils, said the school's owner, Liman Abubakar Bakuso.