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344 Nigerian schoolboys released after mass kidnapping

AFP, 18 Dec 2020
Over 300 Nigerian schoolboys walk free after being abducted in an attack claimed by Boko Haram. "344 are now with the security agencies and will be moved to Katsina this night," state governor Aminu Bello Masari said. The assault on a rural school in Kankara, Katsina state in northwest Nigeria, was initially blamed on criminal gangs who have terrorised the region for years.

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