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.
A BBC reporter in Lagos says the abductors have yet to issue demands.
In most kidnapping cases in southern Nigeria, hostages are released unharmed after a ransom has been paid, reports the BBC’s Umar Shehu Elleman from Lagos.
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.
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