No fewer than 37 children are reportedly still missing following an attack on Government Day Secondary School in Lassa, Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State on Monday.
PUNCH Metro on Monday reports that terrorists attacked the school at about 9 a.m. while candidates were writing the National Examinations Council examination, killing two teachers and abducting an unspecified number of students.
In interviews with our correspondent on Tuesday, parents said the state government had opened a register for families to report missing persons.
A parent, Mbula Bura, whose 19-year-old daughter was abducted, said 37 names had been registered as missing.
He said, “Parents who could not find their children were invited to come and register. I discovered that 37 names have been registered so far as missing.
