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KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - When Linda Peter last spoke to her daughter, the brief phone call left her relieved the teenager was alive but distraught because she could not pay any ransom demanded.
Parents of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization students who have been abducted attend a meeting in Kaduna, Nigeria April 28, 2021. Picture taken April 28, 2021. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
Peter’s 18-year-old daughter, Jennifer, was among 39 students abducted by gunmen on March 11 from a forestry college in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna. The captors, who called from the teenager’s phone, threatened to kill the male captives and force females into marriage, but did not specify the ransom sum sought.
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