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Gunmen have killed a police officer and abducted more than 80 students and five teachers from a school in the Nigerian state of Kebbi, police, residents and teachers said. The attack is the third mass kidnapping in three weeks in northwestern Nigeria, which the authorities have attributed to armed bandits seeking ransom payments. Usman Aliyu, a teacher at the school, said armed men took more than 80 students, most of them girls. "They killed one of (the police), broke through the gate and went…