The Police are searching for the three girls kidnapped by heavily armed men.

After the incident where 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in the north-eastern town of Chibok in 2014, Nigeria is now facing other cases of the kidnapping of school girls though in a lesser scale.

In this direction, Police are hunting for three teenage girls abducted from their boarding school on the outskirt of the economic capital, Lagos by heavily armed gunmen. The girls were taken from a private co-educational secondary school, Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School last Monday evening, BBC reported. The school linked to the Anglican Church is said to be one of the best and most expensive in Lagos State and is mostly attended by children of politicians and wealthy individuals.

Lagos police spokesperson Dolapo Badmus is said to have told news agencies a search to rescue the girls was under way. Local media reports are reported to have indicated that it was not clear whether the girls were kidnapped from their dormitory or in a nearby block where they were studying. Some witnesses reported that shots were fired, making it hard for the unarmed security guards to intervene.

Reports say kidnappings for ransom occasionally occur in Nigeria in Lagos, but this is the first time a school in the city has been attacked by gunmen. The kidnappers of the Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School girls are however, yet to issue demands for ransom. The incident comes nearly two years since more than 200 girls were kidnapped from a boarding school in the north-eastern town of Chibok by militant fighters behind the Islamist insurgency in that region, Boko Haram. Some angry parents have reportedly withdrawn their children from the school until security is reinstated.