11 July 2021, 4:07 AM
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Image: ReutersParents of students abducted at Bethel Baptist High School pray for their safe return around discarded shoes left behind by the children, in Kaduna, Nigeria.
Kidnappings by armed men, commonly referred to in Nigeria as “bandits”, have become endemic in northern Nigeria, disrupting the education of hundreds of thousands of children.
Gunmen attacked the main campus of the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in Kaduna on June 10 and took students and staff members, in the process killing one student.
The college’s spokesman Abdullahi Shehu, said the students and officials were released late on Thursday at an undisclosed location.