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Kidnapping of boys in Nigeria: About 350 were rescued by security forces
The governor of the county state where hundreds of high school students were captured said most of them were released after being held in a forest in a nearby county state.
The announcement came hours after the extremist Boko Haram organization released a video claiming to have seen some of the young hostages
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Thursday, 17 December 2020, 23:51
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In the video: Boko Haram posted a video showing the abducted students in Nigeria (from Twitter)
Security forces in Nigeria today (Thursday) managed to rescue about 350 of the abducted boys in the north of the country - said the governor of the province of Katsina.
"We brought back most of the boys, not all of them," Governor Amino Blue was jailed in an interview with NTA.
He said a total of 344 boys had been released from the Rogo Forest in the nearby state of Zampera County.
He said that during the operation, security forces surrounded the area where the boys were being held and ordered her to fire at least one bullet.
"We have made an indirect connection to ensure the release of the boys unharmed," the governor said.
"We thank God they listened to our advice and not a single shot was fired."
He noted that the boys are making their way back to the state of Katsina to undergo medical tests and reunite with their families.
The announcement came hours after the terrorist organization Boko Haram released a video in which he claimed to have seen some of the young hostages begging for help.
The video, which was circulated on social media and whose credibility was not confirmed by officials, showed a group of boys in the forest begging "help us, help us."
The father of one of the missing, who gave only his first name Omar, said that his son, who was killed by Ibrahim, was one of the boys heard in the video.
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"Help us."
The boys in a video by Boko Haram
In the six-minute video, the boy in his dirty clothes and face spoke English and Hausa and said they had been abducted by the gang of Abu Bakr Shakao - the leader of Boko Haram.
He said some of the boys were killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian army and called for the closure of schools other than madrasas.
At one point, his voice began to tremble and other children began to cry.
Some of the abductees appear to be no more than ten years old.
"All the armies that came here to help us, please come back. They can do nothing to help us," the boy said.
The abduction, which took place last Friday when gunmen raided motorcycles on the Government Science School in the town of Kankara, taking with them hundreds of boys in the largest incident of its kind in the chaotic area in recent years.
The abduction terrified the angry country over the insecurity, and mentioned the abduction of more than 200 girls in 2014 by Boko Haram.
To this day it is not known what happened to about a hundred of them.
The extremist organization is known for forcibly recruiting its hostages to the battlefield.
If his claims are true, Boko Haram's involvement in the attack in the northwest of the country symbolizes the expansion of its geographical activity from the northeast of the country.
"Bring our boys home."
Demonstration for the release of the boys in Katzina, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)
Earlier, protesters in the city of Katsina marched under a sign that read #BringBackOurBoys (bring our boys home), after responding to a call from the "Northern Groups Coalition" - a civic body focusing on the well-being of northern Nigeria residents.
Some shouted: "Save northern Nigeria".
Balarba Ruppin, the body's coordinator, said northern Nigeria was "abandoned to the mercy of rebels, criminals, kidnappers, armed bandits, rapists and a selection of brutal criminals".
He said there was a "huge vacuum in the political will and ability of the government" to deal with the kidnappers, who recaptured the boys.
According to Amnesty International, more than 1,100 people were killed in the first half of 2020 in attacks by armed gangs in the northwest of the country.
They terrorize local communities and make it difficult for them to cultivate their lands, travel or extract resources from the land, like gold.
In the northeast of the country, Boko Haram and the ISIS affiliate in West Africa, which has split from it, have been waging a jihadist uprising for more than a decade.
About two million people were displaced from their homes, and more than 30,000 were killed.
They want to establish an Islamic state.
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