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After being released, the abducted boys from Nigeria reunited with their parents: "Cry of Happiness" - Walla! news

2020-12-18T21:49:42.578Z


More than 300 students released from captivity got to see their relatives in an exciting encounter. "I did not believe until the neighbors informed me that it was true," said the mother of one of them. The president also welcomed them. According to the district governor, the perpetrators of the abduction were local robbers, not the Boko Haram organization, which was initially held responsible.


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After being released, the abducted boys from Nigeria reunited with their parents: "Cry of happiness"

More than 300 students released from captivity got to see their relatives in an exciting encounter.

"I did not believe until the neighbors informed me that it was true," said the mother of one of them.

The president also welcomed them.

According to the district governor, the perpetrators of the abduction were local robbers, not the Boko Haram organization, which was initially held responsible.

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In video: After the boys abducted in Nigeria were released, they met their families (Photo: Reuters)

More than 300 released schoolchildren reunited with their families today (Friday), a week after being abducted from their school in northwestern Nigeria, and their relatives had a hard time hiding the excitement.

The boys were rescued yesterday by security forces, and brought to the county capital.



"I did not believe what I heard until the neighbors came to let me know it was true," the mother of one of the boys told Reuters.

Another mother anxiously expected to see that her 15-year-old son was among the released hostages.

"I have to cry," she said at the sight of her son.

"It's a senior of happiness to see him."

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It was hard to hide the excitement.

The boys return to Katzina, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)

The boys arrived by bus in Katzina, the provincial capital of the same name, where they were also greeted by President Muhammadu Bohari.

Some looked tired, still wearing school uniforms, while others were holding gray blankets.



One of the released boys told a local TV station that the group ate mostly bread in captivity, and that they had a cold.

He said he was "really happy" to be back in Katzina.



The county governor addressed the released children.

"You suffered physically, mentally and psychologically, but let me assure you that we suffered more and your parents suffered more," he said.

Earlier, he said some of the abductees were apparently still being held captive.

"I think we brought back most of the boys - not all of them," he told local media.

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A spokesman for the provincial governor, Abdul LeBran, told the BBC that those behind the abduction were bandits and not the extremist organization Boko Haram which had claimed responsibility for the operation.

"It was not Boko Haram," he said.

"The local bandits we know all along were responsible. These are people we know very well, I met some of their leaders, so the contacts took place in collaboration with the Umbrella Organization of Cattle Breeders' Associations and the negotiations were done through him."



According to state authorities, they were abducted by local robbers.

The extremist jihadist organization Boko Haram claimed to be behind the mass abduction, but some experts questioned the claim because the incident took place far from the organization's normal area of ​​activity.



The organization even released a video that allegedly shows some of the students.

The video, shot in the forest, shows a group of boys begging security forces to move away, with one of them speaking on behalf of the organization.

Alongside the hostages is also a group of masked gunmen.

"Your parents also suffered."

The hostages who were released upon arrival in Katzina, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)

The conflict between shepherds and farmers is common in the provincial states in central and northwestern Nigeria.

The two groups have been fighting each other for decades, but the deadly clashes have intensified in recent years, with agricultural communities and shepherds employing armed guard units, particularly in northwestern Nigeria.



The government insists that no ransom was paid to the kidnappers, but that the boys were released after negotiations.

The governor of the county where the boys were released told the BBC that three rounds of negotiations had taken place separately before the release of the students was promised.



The governor also said that during the negotiations, the kidnappers raised various allegations.

"They have complained, among other things, about the killing of their cattle and various guard units that are interfering with them," he explained, adding that the government had promised to investigate the kidnappers' complaints.

"It was not Boko Haram."

The boys, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)

Eyewitnesses say the abduction began when gunmen raided the school and many students jumped on the fence of the institution and fled after the shooting.

Some followed the gunmen, who tricked them into believing that they were security personnel.

Once arranged, they were marched by the militants to the nearby forest.

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