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Nigerian kidnappers free 10 more students, says representative
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ABUJA, 20 September 2021, (TON): The head of a parents association said “Gunmen who kidnapped more than 100 students from a high school in northwest Nigeria months ago have released 10 more of the hostages.”
Scores of assailants stormed Bethel Baptist High School on July 5 on the outskirts of Kaduna city, abducting 121 students who were sleeping in their dorms.
The incident was part of a string of kidnappings by armed gangs known locally as bandits terrorising northwest and central Nigeria, looting, stealing cattle and seizing residents. The gangs have recently targeted schools and colleges, abducting students to squeeze ransoms from parents and authorities.
Joseph Hayab, the head of the high school’s parents association, said 10 students were freed on Saturday, as kidnappers release the hostages in batches.
He told media they had been reunited with their families.
So far 100 of the kidnapped students have been freed or escaped from their abductors.
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