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More than 340 kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys freed from group claiming to be Boko Haram
Nigerian security forces have rescued nearly 350 schoolboys who had been kidnapped by suspected Islamist gunmen and taken into a vast forest, the governor of Katsina state says.
Key points:
- The boys will be taken for medical treatment before being reunited with family
- Islamist militant group Boko Haram says it was behind the kidnapping but that claim has not been verified
- If its claim is proven, it would mark a move into new territory for the group
The abduction last Friday night had been claimed by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in an unverified audio recording.
Gunmen raided the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara town, Katsina state, on motorbikes and carried off the boys in the biggest such incident in the lawless region in…
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