Nigerian president confirms release of over 200 abducted school children
ABUJA | Xinhua | Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Sunday confirmed the release of more than 200 schoolchildren, 17 days after they were abducted from their schools by unknown gunmen in the country’s northern state of Kaduna. Tinubu in a statement hinted that the early Sunday release of the students, abducted from their schools in the Kuriga town of Kaduna on March 7, was coordinated through a search and rescue operation conducted by the military in collaboration with local authorities and government agencies. The gunmen allegedly abducted at least 287 students from the government-run primary and secondary schools in Kaduna’s Kuriga town, which is said to be one of the largest mass abductions from a Nigerian school in recent years. While no specific armed group has claimed responsibility for this latest incident, it echoes a similar mass kidnapping that occurred about a decade ago in April 2014. Back then, more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted from their dormitories in the northeastern state of Borno by the Boko Haram terror group.
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