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Nigeria kidnappings: 90 pupils freed after three months in captivity

By France24
30 August 2021   |   1:39 pm
Among those now free are some of the youngest children ever taken hostage in Nigeria, a group of 90 pupils who had spent three months in captivity. Hours after those youngsters were brought to the Niger state capital, police in Zamfara state said that 15 older students also had been freed there.

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