After 11 Days, Abducted Zamfara Students Regain Freedom
September 13, 2021
The students, who were abducted on September 1, were received by Governor Bello Matawalle on Sunday, the Nigerian Television Authority reported late Sunday night.
Nigerian Police had reported that gunmen abducted more than 70 students in the country’s northwest state of Zamfara.
Zamfara State Police spokesman, Mohammed Shehu, had said in a statement that a large group of attackers stormed the Government Day Secondary School in the remote village of Kaya that Wednesday morning, seizing the pupils. He had given the number of seized children as 73.
The bandits later returned five of the pupils within 24 hours.