[ad_1]
At least 344 students were freed by their kidnappers in northwestern Nigeria, indicated a local official of the State of Katsina this Thursday.
“We have 344 students, they are being examined in Zamfara. We thank God for their release, ”said Ibrahim Katsina, advisor to the local governor.
A little earlier, an advisor to the president Muhammadu Buhari he had announced the release of the students, although he did not specify how many.
Hundreds of minors, adolescents, They were kidnapped on Friday night by armed men, nicknamed “bandits”, in this region of Nigeria. The victims were abducted in the Kankara State Children’s Lyceum, in the state of Katsina, in a kidnapping that was later claimed by the jihadist group Boko Haram, which nevertheless usually operates in the northeast of the country.
According to Kankara officials, almost 500 teenagers were released this Thursday, although two officers said it was actually 320 or 333.
“No one can give the exact figure,” a security source told AFP. The released students are in the city of Tsafe, in the state of Zamfara, and in the neighboring town of Yankara, in the state of Katsina.
“We will have the precise figure when they have arrived and a recount is made in Katsina – the capital of the eponymous state -” added the same source.
On Thursday, the jihadists of Boko haram they released a video of young people whom they identified as the kidnapped students.
[ad_2]
