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Zamfara eases curfew in Jangebe, town of kidnapped schoolgirls
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Bello Matawalle
Zamfara state has scaled back a curfew imposed on Jangebe town where hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted last month, residents said Tuesday.
The 279 girls were abducted on February 26 from the Government Secondary School in Jangebe by bandits.
They were released five days later, in the latest mass kidnapping to target schools.
But a round-the-clock curfew was then placed on the remote town, and its market and shops were closed, after violence marred an event to mark the girls’ return to their parents.
“The curfew has been relaxed. It is now from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am,” resident Bello Gidan-Ruwa told AFP by phone.
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Shooting mars reunion of freed Nigerian schoolgirls with parents
By Aminu ABUBAKAR
MAR 4, 2021
Shooting broke out at a handover ceremony after the kidnapped girls were returned to their village of Jangebe. By - (AFP)
All the 279 Nigerian schoolgirls released by kidnappers this week were on Wednesday reunited with their parents, in an emotional event overshadowed by chaos and shooting by security forces, an AFP reporter saw.
Angered by officials insistence on a formal handover before parents could leave with their children, mobs began throwing stones at officials outside the school in the remote village of Jangebe when the girls were returned.