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Bandits who attacked Batsari community in Katsina State last May have released five of their victims. The victims regained their freedom after spending 66 days in captivity.

It was learnt that the victims regained freedom after the family of one of them, a woman, paid a ransom of N2.5m to facilitate her release and that of her son.Residents said that the bandits thereafter promised to release Hussaina and her son to her family at a location in Batsari on Friday evening. It was further learnt that a member of Hussaina’s family who went to the location to pick her, however, met three other victims who were also released along with her.

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