KATSINA – Security forces on Thursday rescued nearly 350 schoolboys who had been kidnapped in northwestern Nigeria and taken into a vast forest, the governor of Katsina state said.
It was not immediately clear whether all the missing boys had been recovered.
“I think we have recovered most of the boys,” Gov. Aminu Bello Masari said in a televised interview with state channel NTA.
Hours earlier a video started circulating online purportedly showing Islamist militants from Boko Haram with some of the boys.
The abduction gripped a country already incensed by widespread insecurity, and evoked memories of Boko Haram’s 2014 kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls in the northeastern town of Chibok. (Reuters)
