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Lagos (Nigeria), March 2 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Stringer) The 279 students kidnapped at dawn last Friday in a public school for girls in the state of Zamfara, in northwestern Nigeria, were released on Tuesday, according to the governor of the region, Beautiful Muhammad Matawalle.FOOTAGE OF THE STUDENTS.
Freed schoolgirls leave the Zamfara State capital to be reunited with their families in their village. The girls, pupils at Government Secondary School in the remote village of Jangebe in northeastern Zamfara state, were abducted on Friday from their hostels by gunmen known locally as bandits, who released them early Tuesday. IMAGES
A group of girls previously kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria arrive on March 2, 2021 at the Government House in Gusau, Zamfara State, upon their release. All 279 girls kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria have been released and are on government premises. Nigeria has been rocked by four mass abductions of students in less than three months, by criminal groups. IMAGES
Hundreds of girls wearing hijabs, gathered at Zamfara state government premises as all 279 students kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria have been released. IMAGES
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