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The attack was depressingly familiar, as was the government’s apparent inability to provide a clear explanation of what exactly happened.
On Monday evening, militants from the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram stormed a girls’ school in the town of Dapchi, in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Yobe, and kidnapped dozens of students. The exact number of those missing was still unclear Friday, but it could be more than 100.