GUSAU, Nigeria — Gunmen have freed all 279 girlskidnapped from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, officials saidTuesday, as victims told how their abductors had beaten and threatened to shoot them.
The pupils from Jangebe, a town in Zamfara state, were seized just after midnight on Friday. All had now been freed, Zamfara Governor Bello Matawallesaid.
Umma Abubakar, among those released, described theirordeal.
“Most of us got injured on our feet and we could not continue trekking, so theysaidthey will shoot anybody who did not continue to walk,” she told Reuters.
Boarding schools in northern Nigeria have become targets for masskidnappings for ransom by armed crimina…
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