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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Gunmen in Nigeria abducted more than 80 Islamic school students in northwestern Katsina state Saturday night, but the pupils were quickly rescued by security forces after a fierce gun battle, police announced Sunday. The foiled abduction comes less than two days after the release of 344 schoolboys who were kidnapped in the […]
Image: Sunday Alamba / AP A group of Nigerian schoolboys are escorted December 18 by military and officials in Katsina following their release after they were kidnapped last week. Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state and Nigeria’s president on Friday. Reunions with their parents began late in the day. “Since this incident happened I have not been able to sleep, but now I can sleep,” said Salisu Kankara, a parent o...
KATSINA, Nigeria (AP) — Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state Friday. Reunions that are more celebratory and emotional likely will come when the boys are finally reunited with their families, after being examined for any injuries. The relatively quick release of the more than 330 boys took place after a prompt response by the government, which appears to have learned from earlier mass school abductions, especially of the Chibok sch...
KATSINA, Nigeria (AP) — Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state and Nigeria’s president on Friday. Reunions with their parents began late in the day. “Since this incident happened I have not been able to sleep, but now I can sleep,” said Salisu Kankara, a parent of one of the schoolboys who was released. The relatively quick release of the more than 330 boys took place after a prompt response by the government, which appears ...
Lekan Oyekanmi And Haruna Umar Belongings of a missing Government Science Secondary School student are seen at their hostel in Kankara, Nigeria, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeria's northern Katsina State last week in one of the largest such attacks in years, raising fears of a growing wave of violence in the region. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) December 16, 2020 - 10:23 AM KANKARA, Nigeria - Anger, fear and exhaustion. Anxiety has overwhelmed many par...