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Freed Nigerian schoolboys welcomed; calls for more security

BY , Dec 18, 2020 6:22 PM - REPORT AN ERROR

More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped last week in an attack on their school in northwest Nigeria have arrived in the capital of Katsina state to celebrate their release.

The boys were abducted one week ago from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara in Katsina state village.

Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadist rebels claimed responsibility for the abduction, saying they attacked the school because it believes Western education is un-Islamic, factional leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video earlier this week.

More than 800 students were at the school at the time of the attack.

Hundreds escaped, but it was believed that more than 330 were abducted by the attackers.

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