Twenty-four girls who were abducted from a government boarding school in northwestern Nigeria last week have been released, the state governor’s media aide said on Tuesday.
The girls were seized on November 17 when armed men stormed their school in Kebbi state shortly after a military detachment left the premises. The attack triggered a wave of copycat kidnappings in Kwara and Niger states, authorities said.
Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls have been released, official says
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