BREAKING: Kidnapped Zamfara Students Have Regained Their Freedom

• Students of Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, in Zamfara State, who were kidnapped by bandits, have been set free.

The kidnapped students of Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State, have regained their freedom.

According to NTA, the students who were abducted on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, were all released at once.

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Although, it is unclear if ransom was paid to the bandits for their release.

Following the incident, the Nigeria Police Force later confirmed that it was mass abduction.

The police stated that the bandits abducted more than 70 students in the country’s northwest state of Zamfara.

Zamfara State Police spokesman, Mohammed Shehu, had said in a statement that a large group of attackers stormed the Government Day Secondary School in the remote village of Kaya that Wednesday morning, seizing the pupils. He had given the number of seized children as 73.

“The abduction followed the invasion of the school by large numbers of armed bandits,” he had stated.

Shehu said that Police rescue teams were working with the military to secure the release of the pupils.

The bandits later returned five of the pupils within 24 hours.

A former councilor of Kaya ward, Yahaya Kaya, said that his niece was among those released by the bandits; adding that the five freed pupils had been returned to their hometown of Kaya.

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