<p>Gunmen abducted six girls and two staff members Thursday from a boarding school in a northern Nigerian region notorious for banditry and ransom kidnappings, police said.</p>.<p>Armed men gained entry into the Engravers College, a mixed boarding school in a remote area just south of the city of Kaduna, police spokesman Yakubu Sabo said.</p>.<p>"(They) took away two staff of the college and six female students to an unknown destination," Sabo said.</p>.<p>The school, which hosts girls and boys, is located far to the west of an area notorious for attacks by the Boko Haram jihadist group.</p>.<p>Boko Haram grabbed headlines around the world in 2014 for the abduction of 276 schoolgirls from the remote northeastern town of Chibok in Borno state.</p>.<p>The police said they had deployed units "to the area for possible rescue of the victims and arresting the perpetrators."</p>.<p>It said officers were "doing everything possible to secure the release of all the victims unhurt".</p>.<p>The bursar at the school confirmed the kidnapping to AFP.</p>.<p>"Unknown gunmen broke into the school around 12:10 am (2310 GMT) and took away six female students and two staff who live inside the school," Elvis Allah-Yaro said.</p>.<p>Abductions for ransom are common in Nigeria and the highway from the capital Abuja to the city of Kaduna has seen a surge in attacks by armed criminals, but raids on schools are rare.</p>
<p>Gunmen abducted six girls and two staff members Thursday from a boarding school in a northern Nigerian region notorious for banditry and ransom kidnappings, police said.</p>.<p>Armed men gained entry into the Engravers College, a mixed boarding school in a remote area just south of the city of Kaduna, police spokesman Yakubu Sabo said.</p>.<p>"(They) took away two staff of the college and six female students to an unknown destination," Sabo said.</p>.<p>The school, which hosts girls and boys, is located far to the west of an area notorious for attacks by the Boko Haram jihadist group.</p>.<p>Boko Haram grabbed headlines around the world in 2014 for the abduction of 276 schoolgirls from the remote northeastern town of Chibok in Borno state.</p>.<p>The police said they had deployed units "to the area for possible rescue of the victims and arresting the perpetrators."</p>.<p>It said officers were "doing everything possible to secure the release of all the victims unhurt".</p>.<p>The bursar at the school confirmed the kidnapping to AFP.</p>.<p>"Unknown gunmen broke into the school around 12:10 am (2310 GMT) and took away six female students and two staff who live inside the school," Elvis Allah-Yaro said.</p>.<p>Abductions for ransom are common in Nigeria and the highway from the capital Abuja to the city of Kaduna has seen a surge in attacks by armed criminals, but raids on schools are rare.</p>