Students who escaped mass kidnapping in Nigeria tell of their ordeal
14 December 2020 |
3:23 pm
Students at the school in Nigeria who escaped a raid by gunmen that saw hundreds of their friends kidnapped have been speaking about their ordeal. More than 300 students from the all-boys Government Science school in Kankara, in the northwestern Katsina state, who were abducted on Friday night remained missing on Sunday.
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