Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls freed, reunited with families days after kidnapping - News 360 Tv
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Date: 02/03/2021

Freed schoolgirls were reunited with their families on Tuesday in the Nigerian state of Zamfara.

Gunmen released all 279 girls kidnapped from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, the state governor said.

According to earlier reports, 317 girls from the Government Girls Science Secondary (GGSS) School in the town of Jangebe were abducted by an armed gang at around 1 a.m. on Friday (February 26).

Zamfara state spokesman Sulaiman Tanau Anka told Reuters that some of the missing girls had run into the bush at the time of the assault, and the number of those kidnapped was 279. All had now been freed, Zamfara Governor Bello Matawalle said.

Parents arrived to collect dozens of girls in Muslim veils sitting in a hall in a state government building, and one father wept with joy after seeing his daughter.

Most of the girls appeared to be unharmed, but at least a dozen were sent to hospital for treatment. The girls were mostly barefoot, and several had injuries to their feet.

News of the girls' release brings "overwhelming joy", President Muhammadu Buhari said on Twitter. "I am pleased that their ordeal has come to a happy end without any incident."

Schools have become targets for mass kidnappings for ransom in northern Nigeria by armed criminal groups, in a trend started by the jihadist group Boko Haram, and later its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province.

The government has repeatedly denied paying ransoms. But Buhari on Friday urged state governments "to review their policy of rewarding bandits with money and vehicles, warning that the policy might boomerang disastrously".

Let's hear now from Zamfara state's police commissioner. 

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