Friday, 18 Dec 2020 05:40 PM MYT
Freed Nigerian schoolboys walk after they were rescued by security forces in Katsina, Nigeria, December 18, 2020. — Reuters pic
Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know.
KATSINA (Nigeria), Dec 18 — Dozens of kidnapped school boys arrived back home today, a day after security forces rescued them in north-west Nigeria.
Television pictures showed the boys, many of them wearing light green uniforms and clutching blankets, arriving on buses, looking weary but otherwise well.
Gunmen raided the boys’ secondary school in Kankara town, Katsina state, on Friday last week and marched around 350 of them into the vast Rugu forest. It was not clear if all of them had been recovered in the rescue operation.