Over 100 girls are missing following an attack on a school in north-eastern Nigeria, by suspected members of Boko Haram.

“The Federal Government has confirmed that 110 students of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, are so far unaccounted for, after insurgents believed to be from a faction of Boko Haram invaded their school on Monday,” said the information ministry

The information minister has said that police and security officials have been deployed to the area, and efforts were being made to rescue the girls.