新聞挑戰｜Attackers kidnap 140 pupils from Nigerian boarding school

Gunmen have kidnapped 140 children from a boarding school in north-western Nigeria, a school official has said, in the latest in a wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren and students.（節錄自衛報，The Guardian）

kidnap (v.) 綁架

pupil (n.) 小學生

boarding school (n.) 寄宿學校

Nigeria (n.) 奈及利亞

abduction (n.) 綁架

Gunmen have kidnapped 140 children from a boarding school in north-western Nigeria, a school official has said, in the latest in a wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren and students.

找到主詞動詞，

Gunmen have kidnapped 140 children from a boarding school in north-western Nigeria,

主要內容

a school official has said,

誰說

in the latest in a wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren and students.

補充說明

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整段的意思是：

奈及利亞西北部一間寄宿學校的校方表示持槍者綁架140名學童，是最新一起針對學童與學生的大型綁架案。

今天多補充兩段，可以自行選讀

Heavily armed criminal gangs in north-west and central Nigeria often attack villages to loot, steal cattle and abduct people for ransom, but since the start of the year have increasingly targeted schools and colleges.

armed (adj.) 武裝的

loot (v.) 搶劫

cattle (n.) 牛

ransom (n.) 贖金

The attackers opened fire and overpowered security guards after storming the Bethel Baptist high school in Kaduna state in the early hours of Monday, abducting most of the 165 pupils boarding there overnight.

open fire 開火

overpower (v.) 壓倒、制服

security guard (n.) 保全

storm (v.) 突襲

Kaduna (n.) 卡杜納

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