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35 police trainees missing after Boko Haram attack─── 12:34 Sun, 24 Aug 2014
Abuja - Thirty-five Nigerian police officers deployed to a training academy in the remote northeast are missing after a Boko Haram attack on the facility.
AFP reports the Islamists attacked the academy just outside the town of Gwoza on Wednesday.
Police suspect some may have been killed with their bodies not yet found while others may have ran to safety but it is being investigated whether they've been abducted.
Boko Haram, blamed for more than 10 000 deaths since 2009, has repeatedly targeted the police and the military throughout an insurgency aimed at creating a strict Islamic state in the north.
- AFP
