Armed men who kidnapped more than 100 students in a Christian school in northwestern Nigeria released ten of them, the parents' representative said on Sunday.
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Since the kidnapping of 121 students on July 5 at Bethel Secondary School Baptist High School boarding school on the outskirts of Kaduna town, 100 of them had been released or managed to escape, while 21 still remained in custody. of their captors. "
The kidnappers released 10 more students after obtaining their ransom as was the case for the students they had released previously,
" said Joseph Hayab without disclosing the amount of the ransoms.
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Eleven other students remain in captivity and we hope they will all be released the next time we come to an agreement with the bandits,
" he said. Police announced Thursday that they had arrested three people suspected of kidnapping all these students nearly three months ago. This mass kidnapping was part of a series of kidnappings carried out for months by armed criminal groups, operating in northwest and central Nigeria.
These groups which carry out looting, attacks and kidnappings, are first of all motivated by the greed. They target schoolchildren and students to obtain ransoms and a priori have no ideological motivation, unlike the jihadist groups that are rampant in Nigeria. About a thousand schoolchildren and students have been kidnapped since December, when gangs started attacking schools. Most were released after negotiations but hundreds remain prisoners in camps hidden in forests.
Last month, nearly 100 students from a private Muslim school who were kidnapped in western Nigeria in May were reunited with their parents.
Boko Haram Islamists are the first to kidnap schools, with the kidnapping of more than 200 young girls from their Chibok dormitory in 2014, sparking global public opinion.
