Two killed in church attack in Nigeria, just days after dozens of schoolgirls were abducted

Two people were killed in an attack on a church in central Nigeria, authorities said, just days after  after dozens were abducted and one staffer killed in the country’s north.

No group has claimed responsibility for Tuesday night’s attack in Eruku town in central Nigeria. Police responded to gunfire and found one person fatally shot inside the church and another nearby, Kwara state police spokesperson Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi said in a statement. 

Kwara State Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in a statement Wednesday praised Nigerian President Bola Tinubu for the deployment of 900 additional troops there.

Tinubu has delayed his departure to South Africa, where he planned to attend this weekend’s Group of 20 summit of the world’s leading rich and developing nations after the attack and the abduction of 24 schoolgirls on Monday, a spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, said in a statement.

One of 25 abducted students in northwestern Nigeria escapes

Twenty-five schoolgirls were reported abducted from the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Kebbi state’s Maga town Monday, but one escaped and is now safe, the school’s principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Hunters were searching for the remaining missing students in forests near the school.