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Nigerian gunmen kidnap over 70 children from village school

By DW
02 September 2021   |   9:40 am
The attack on a remote village in the northwest of the country comes days after bandits released 90 pupils they had held captive. Police are searching for the perpetrators of the latest crime.

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