2020-12-18 02:05:46 GMT2020-12-18 10:05:46(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
LAGOS, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) A total of 344 students who were kidnapped from a school in northern Nigeria s Katsina state and taken into a forest in a nearby state have been released, Governor of Katsina State Aminu Masari said Thursday. I think we have recovered most of the boys, the governor told Nigerian TV network NTA in an interview published on Twitter, adding the students, now travelling back to Katsina State, will receive medical examination and reunite with their families on Friday.
The students of Government Science Secondary School at Kankara area in Katsina State were kidnapped on the night of Dec. 11 when a group of gunmen stormed the school. They were then taken into a vast forest in neighboring Zamfara State, according to media reports.
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A screenshot taken on December 18, 2020, shows President Muhammadu Buhari addressing the abducted students in Kankara following their release by their captors.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with the released students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, in Katsina State.
This comes about an hour after the Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashir Ahmad, made the announcement in a tweet.
The President who received the boys in company with the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, and some top Federal and state government officials, addressed them in Hausa language.
He thanked all those involved in the release of the students, especially the Federal and State governments, as well as the military.
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A day after taking custody of the freed 344 boys captured from Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State, the Federal Government raised hope that the remaining girls seized by terrorists from Chibok and Dabchi would be freed and reunited with their parents.
The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the renewed hope about the remaining captives while addressing the media in Abuja on Friday.
“We will not relent until all those who remain missing in Chibok and Dapchi and reunited with their families,” Mohammed said at the press briefing.