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Scores of schoolchildren abducted from Kuriga, Kaduna have been released, two weeks after they were taken away in what was one of Nigeria’s largest mass kidnapping in years.The students, about 287, were kidnapped when the gunmen on motorcycles rode through their school, taking them away in an incident that sparked national outrage and condemnation.
“In the name of Allah the Beneficient, the Most Merciful, I wish to announce that our Kuriga school children have been released,” Kaduna State governor Uba Sani said in an early Sunday statement. Although the mass kidnapping of students have reduced in recent months since the bandits began targeting schools, the Kuriga abduction was reminiscent of the April 2014 seizure of over 200 students in Chibok, Borno State.
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