Name: At least 28 schoolchildren escape captors
Uploaded: 2024-03-09T08:43:13-05:00
Duration: 5 min
Description: At least 28 of the nearly 300 schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen have escaped, Nigeria’s Kaduna state governor has told BBC News. Nigeria’s army is leading a desperate search for the children taken in the northern town of Kuriga on Thursday. Troops are working with police and local search teams to comb the forests within Kaduna […]

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At least 28 schoolchildren escape captors

At least 28 of the nearly 300 schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen have escaped, Nigeria’s Kaduna state governor has told BBC News. Nigeria’s army is leading a desperate search for the children taken in the northern town of Kuriga on Thursday. Troops are working with police and local search teams to comb the forests within Kaduna […]

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