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Adam Smigielski/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and JAMES BWALA, ABC News (LONDON) Hundreds of students who were abducted from an all-girls boarding school in northwestern Nigeria last week have been released, authorities said Tuesday.Gunmen kidnapped 317 students from the Government Girls Junior Secondary School (GGSS) in the rural town of Jangebe in Zamfara state before dawn on Friday, according to a statement from Mohammed Shehu, spokesperson for the Nigeria Police Force's Zamfara State Police Command. The incident the latest in a recent string of mass abductions of students in the West African nation caused international outrage, with the United States condemning the attack.Zamfara state police and the Nigerian military have conducted joint operations to rescue the schoolgirls.The governor of Zamfara state, Bello Matawalle, announced early Tuesday that 279 schoolgirls have been freed. The terms of their release were not immediately known. It's also unclear whether others rem