Parents wait for news of abducted Nigerian students

Parents of students kidnapped from a school in Nigeria continued to anxiously wait for news on Monday about their children who had been taken away the previous day.

"Actually what I saw was horrifying" said Ashiru Adamu Idrisa, the father of three girls, the youngest 5 years old, who were abducted from the Salihu Tanko Islamic School in Tegina.

"Right in front of my eyes my children were taken out", he said.

A large number of students were abducted Sunday and one person was killed at a school in Nigeria's north central Niger State, a police spokesman confirmed.

The owner of the school told state media NTA on Monday that 136 children were kidnapped, according to information provided by the parents of the students.

The incident is the latest in a series of mass abductions in Nigerian schools by armed gangs who collect money for ransom.

Armed groups have carried out raids on schools in northern Nigeria, kidnapping hundreds of students since December.

The worst incident this year occurred at the Government Girls Secondary School Jangebe in February, when 279 girls were abducted and later released.