ABUJA: Nigeria’s authorities has secured the discharge of 100 schoolchildren who have been kidnapped final month in Niger state in one of many country’s worst mass kidnappings so far, native broadcaster Channels Tv reported on Sunday (Dec 7).
The Christian Affiliation of Nigeria (CAN) has mentioned 303 youngsters and 12 faculty employees have been kidnapped on November 21 by gunmen at St. Mary’s Catholic boarding faculty in Papiri, a hamlet in Niger state.
Fifty pupils managed to flee within the following hours, however since then there had been no replace on the whereabouts or circumstances of the opposite youngsters, some as younger as six, and the lacking faculty employees.
Channels Tv didn’t instantly present particulars in regards to the launch.
The CAN and Niger state authorities mentioned they weren’t formally notified of the discharge of the youngsters.
The Nigerian authorities didn’t instantly remark.
“We’re not formally conscious and haven’t been duly notified by the federal authorities. We hope and pray it’s true and will probably be trying ahead to when the remaining will probably be launched”, mentioned Daniel Atori, spokesperson for the top of CAN in Niger state.
