Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls’ families gather as police and military launch rescue operation

Families of more than 300 schoolgirls kidnapped by gunmen from a Nigerian school north last week, the latest in a series of mass school kidnappings in the West African nation, have gathered, anxious for news.

Worried parents on Sunday attended the Government Girls Junior Secondary School in the country’s north, guarded by police.

Aliyu Ladan Jangebe said his five daughters aged between 12 and 16 were at the school when the kidnappers stormed in.

Four were taken away but one escaped by hiding in a…