worldUpdated: Oct 20, 2019 08:14 ISTPolice in northern Nigeria have rescued 147 people from an Islamic boarding school where the students were being abused, the fourth such raid in a month, a local official told AFP. Armed officers found the inmates when they raided a school in the Rigasa district of Kaduna, said Hafsat Baba, Kaduna state women affairs commissioner. “Some of them have psychological problems and are mentally unstable.”Last month police rescued more than 300 male students from a similar boarding school in the same neighbourhood. That led to police raids on two other boarding schools in nearby Katsina state this week, where officers said they rescued more than 400 male students. Baba promised that any schools found keeping their inmates in such conditions would be shut down.

Source: Hindustan Times October 20, 2019 00:56 UTC