Nigeria, Nov. 17 -- The Nigerian government has vowed a swift rescue for 25 girls kidnapped from their secondary school in Kebbi, in the north-western part of the country.

Information Minister Mohammed Idris, in a statement on Monday, said the government "condemns the reprehensible attack on innocent students and the killing of school officials who were carrying out their noble duty."

PREMIUM TIMES reported that terrorists, locally called bandits, attacked the Maga Comprehensive Girls' Secondary School in Danko Wasagu LGA of Kebbi in the early hours of Monday.

The police later said the attack occurred at about 4 a.m. and that 25 students of the school were kidnapped, while one school official was killed.

"Our security and intelligence...