A week later, 344 students kidnapped in northwestern Nigeria, an abduction claimed by the jihadist group Boko Haram, have just been released, local official announced on Thursday.
“They are currently being examined in Zamfara.
We thank God for their release, ”said Ibrahim Katsina, an adviser to the governor of Kandara.
A security source nevertheless indicated that some students were still in the hands of their captors.
As a reminder, hundreds of minors, middle and high school students, were kidnapped Friday evening by armed men, nicknamed "bandits" in this region of Nigeria, operating for the jihadist group Boko Haram, whose area of influence is hundreds of kilometers further east.
They were abducted from their boarding school in Kankara.
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Their exact number remains unclear, the authorities announcing earlier 333 missing students, then 400 Thursday morning.
In this video, Boko Haram says, through the voice of this young boy of about 14, that they are 520 in their hands, and that some have been killed.
The children, for the most part very young, appear exhausted, crammed into a forest, in very degraded sanitary conditions.