Bandits free abducted Niger students

LOCAL

The abducted Kagara Government Science College students, their teachers and family members have been released.

Reports say they were released in the early hours of Saturday.

A government official who confirmed the release, said they were on their way to Minna, the state capital.

According to him, the children were released from a location close to where the fifty-three abductees were released a week ago.

They are expected to be received by Governor Abubakar Bello at the Government House in Minna.

Twenty-seven students and 14 others were abducted from the school.

Gunmen had on February 17 stormed the school and whisked away 42 people, including 27 students from the Kagara school.