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More than 300 children abducted from a school in Nigeria are traveling home with military escorts after being released by their captors.
Last Friday’s assault on a rural school in Kankara, Katsina state in northwestern Nigeria, was initially attributed to criminal gangs that have terrorized the region for years.
But on Tuesday Boko Haram, the brutal jihadist group behind the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014, claimed responsibility for the raid.
After a six-day ordeal, local officials said last night that the children had been released.
“344 are now with the security agencies and will be transferred to Katsina tonight,” said state governor Aminu Bello Masari.
In an interview with the state channel NTA, the governor added: “I think we have recovered most of the boys, not all.”
Those who were released “will receive adequate medical attention and care before being reunited with their families,” he added.
“It is a great relief to the entire country and the international community,” President Muhammadu Buhari said on Twitter.
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