Nigerian police rescue hundreds from another ‘torture house’ Koranic school
19 October 2019 |
12:32 pm
Police in northern Nigeria rescue over 300 young men from an Islamic boarding school where they were chained and sexually abused, the second such operation in a month. The raid comes after some students escaped the school on Sunday and revealed the barbaric conditions they were living in
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