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Abuja: The Nigerian authorities announced this Tuesday the release of 17 of the hundreds of hostages held by the “Boko Haram” organization since last Monday, in the state of “Katsina”, in the northwest of the country.
On Monday, Nigerian police said hundreds of students disappeared after gunmen attacked a high school in the state.
“The State High School of Sciences in Kankara was attacked last Friday night by a large group of bandits who fired AK-47 rifles,” said Gambo Issa, a spokesman for the Katsina State Police, in a statement at the time.
And Issa added: “There are about 400 students missing, while there are 200 students, as the school is believed to have over 600 students.”
“The Nigerian Police, Army and Air Force are working closely with school authorities to determine the actual number of missing and abducted students and to rescue them,” the Katsina State Police spokesman stressed.
On Tuesday, Katsina Governor Aminu Masari said, speaking to a local radio station, that security forces launched an operation against Boko Haram, who said he was the one who kidnapped the students, noting that 17 of them they were released and two others were killed.
He noted that the released students had been handed over to their families and that operations were still continuing to free the rest of the group’s control in the neighboring state’s Zamfara forests.
The most serious attack on a school occurred in April 2014, when Boko Haram militants abducted 276 girls from their school dormitory in Chibok, in the northeastern state of Borno, about 100 of whom remain missing.
More than 20,000 people have died as a result of massive violence by the terrorist organization Boko Haram since 2009 in Nigeria.
The organization has also launched attacks in the country’s neighboring countries, namely Cameroon, Chad and Niger, since 2015.
At least 2,000 people lost their lives as a result of ISIS attacks in the Lake Chad basin, in addition to the displacement of nearly 3 million people.
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