Twenty-eight of the more than 100 students abducted earlier this month from a secondary school in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna have been freed.
The pupils, from the Bethel Baptist High School, were released following negotiations between the kidnappers and the abductees’ parents.
They were reunited with their parents in the early hours of Sunday after being checked by medical personnel.
More than 1,000 students have been kidnapped from schools across Nigeria since last December.
Hundreds of them are still in captivity as Nigeria’s kidnapping for ransom crisis deepens.
Earlier this weekend, a man carrying a ransom to release another group of children, this time in Niger state, was himself taken hostage.
The Nigerian authorities are being severely criticised for their failure to tackle the widespread insecurity.
Source: BBC
