US EditionNigerian government frees 130 kidnapped Catholic schoolchildren
The final 130 pupils kidnapped in November have been freed after a military-intelligence operation, completing the release of over 300 abducted from St Mary’s Catholic school.
- 130 kidnapped schoolchildren from a Catholic school in Niger state, Nigeria were freed after another 100 were released earlier in December.
- The schoolchildren were among more than 300 pupils and 12 staff seized by gunmen from St Mary's Catholic boarding school in Papiri village on November 21.
- Their freedom followed a military-intelligence driven operation, and they are expected to arrive in Minna on Monday to rejoin their parents for Christmas.
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Another 100 students from the school had already been released in early December.
On Sunday, 21 December, the Nigerian authorities announced the release of 130 students abducted on 21 November by armed men in a Catholic school in the north-central Niger state. At the beginning of December, another 100 students kidnapped in November had been released. According to the spokesman for the presidency, there are no more students in captivity of those abducted on 21 November.
Remaining 130 abducted Nigerian students have been released, president's spokesman says
YENAGOA, Nigeria, Dec 21 (Reuters) - The remaining 130 Nigerian schoolchildren abducted in November from a Catholic school in Niger state have been released, President Bola Tinubu's spokesperson said on Sunday, following one of the country's biggest mass kidnappings of recent years. Read full story
The children have been released after nearly a month of hostage-taking.
Nigeria says 130 more children released nearly a month after being kidnapped from school
By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — The remaining 130 schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State in November have been released, a presidential spokesman said on Sunday, confirming that all abducted pupils are now free. “Another 130 abducted Niger State pupils released, none left in captivity,” spokesman Sunday Dare said in a post on X, accompanied by a photograph showing the smiling children. T…
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