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School bags said to belong to some of the children who were taken from their boarding school in northern Nigeria last week. The children have now reportedly been released.
More than 300 of the children who were abducted last week in the Nigerian state of Katsina have been released.
According to one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s closest associates, Bashir Ahmaad, the children have been turned over to the authorities.
“Kidnapped students from science high school have been rescued,” Ahmaad wrote on Twitter.
However, according to a source from the AFP news agency, the kidnappers are still holding several children.
It was last week that the school boarding school in Katsina, northern Nigeria, was assaulted by armed men on a motorcycle. Many of the students, roughly the ages of Swedish middle and high school, had gone to bed when the “bandits” arrived. Following an intense shootout with security forces, the men are said to have disappeared with an unknown number of people as hostages. Hundreds of students also fled to the surrounding terrain.
A few days later, the terrorist group Boko Haram claimed that it was behind the mass kidnapping. That information has not been confirmed.
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