MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Thirty-seven students were missing after jihadists raided their school where they were writing final exams on Monday, according to a list shared by a Nigerian local government official on Tuesday. The attack occurred Monday morning when assailants from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) stormed a secondary school in the town of Lassa, in Askira Uba district, killing three people including a soldier and a teacher, according to the military, who initially said authorities had rescued 10 of them and that only one was missing.

According to the military, the terrorists stormed the Technical Secondary School in Lassa at about 9am on Monday while students were sitting for their NECO examinations, abducting…

"At about 9 a.m., an unspecified number of Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists attacked a secondary school and shot sporadically into...