Boko Haram Releases Video Of Abducted Katsina Students

A video clip reportedly released by the Boko Haram terrorist group has shown some of the more than 300 students abducted last week from a Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State.

The video, filmed in a forest, showed gunmen with their faces covered standing guard over boys, some of whom look no older than 10.

BBC reports that one child is made to issue demands on behalf of the group.

Read also: Boko Haram Claims Responsibility For Katsina School Attack 

Despite the Boko Haram claiming responsibility for the Katsina abduction, the government has insisted that the dastardly act was carried out by local gangs connected to the Islamist group.

Eko Hot Blog had reported that the state government said that its in communication with the abductors through Miyetti Allah, a welfare group of Fulani pastoralists.

Boko Haram has been notorious over the last decade for school kidnappings, including in Chibok in 2014, when hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted. Its name loosely translated as “Western education is forbidden”.

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