Gunmen kidnap 287 pupils from Nigerian primary school

People gather around an area were gunmen kidnapped school children in Chikun, Nigeria (AP)

Gunmen have attacked a primary school in Nigeria’s north-west region and abducted 287 pupils.

Residents told the Associated Press the assailants surrounded the government-owned school in Kaduna State’s Kuriga town just as the pupils were about to start the school day.