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Nigeria Claims to Free 344 Student Captives from Boko Haram 19 Dec 2020 The Nigerian government said on Thursday it had secured the release of over 340 student hostages abducted by the Islamic terror group Boko Haram last week. A large number of unidentified gunmen ambushed the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, a town in northern Nigeria’s Katsina state, on the night of December 11, abducting hundreds of students. The Nigerian jihadi group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attack and kidnapping on December 15. “Nigerian soldiers and government officials that were involved in the negotiation for the release of the kidnapped schoolboys have told us that the whole school children have been released, 344 of them,” the governor of Nigeria’s Katsina state, Aminu Masari, told a DWTV Hausa reporter Thursday night, Nigeria’s ....
Nigerian Official: More Than 300 Abducted Schoolboys Freed MAIDUGURI, Nigeria More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwest Nigeria have been released, a government official said Thursday. In an announcement on Nigerian state TV, NTA, Katsina State Gov. Aminu Bello Masari said the 344 boarding school students were turned over to security officials and were being brought to the state capital, where they will get physical examinations before being reunited with their families. “I think we can say … we have recovered most of the boys, if not all of them,” Masari said. He did not disclose if the government paid any ransom. ....
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Nigerian official: More than 300 abducted schoolboys freed By CARLEY PETESCH and HARUNA UMARDecember 18, 2020 GMT MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwest Nigeria have been released, a government official said Thursday. In an announcement on Nigerian state TV, NTA, Katsina State Gov. Aminu Bello Masari said the 344 boarding school students were turned over to security officials and were being brought to the state capital, where they will get physical examinations before being reunited with their families. “I think we can say . we have recovered most of the boys, if not all of them,” Masari said. He did not disclose if the government paid any ransom. ....