After their release, boys were seen by a Reuters witness walking with armed security through a dusty village, some struggling to stand and asking for water. Girls walk outside JSS Jangebe school (Photo: Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde)The release comes just a day after the raid on a school in Zamfara state where gunmen seized 317 girls. Police on Saturday mounted a hunt for the girls, while parents waited in the school compound for news on their daughters. In December, gunmen raided a school in northwestern Katsina state and kidnapped nearly 350 boys, who were subsequently rescued by security forces. The highest profile school kidnapping was that of more than 270 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from the town of Chibok in 2014.

Source: Standard Digital February 28, 2021 05:26 UTC