Breaking News: 50 Nigerian schoolchildren escape from captivity after being abducted by gunmen from St. Mary's Catholic School in Niger State. The children, aged between 10 and 18, managed to escape separately between Friday and Saturday, reuniting with their families. However, 253 students and 12 teachers remain in captivity, sparking widespread concern and calls for their safe return. #NigeriaSchoolKidnapping #StMarysSchoolAbduction #KidnappedStudents #PrayForNigeria #ReleaseOurChildrenl #NigeriaSafety #SchoolAbduction #ChristianAssociationOfNigeria #PopeLeoAppeal #SecurityCrisis #GunmenAttack #EducationUnderAttack#BringThemHome
00:00Fifty of the 315 youngsters abducted by means of gunmen from a Catholic faculty in Nigeria's Niger state on Friday have escaped.
00:09The Christian Association of Nigeria says they had been reunited with their households.
00:14A most important military-led search and rescue operation is below manner for the ultimate 265 kids and 12 instructors who had been serious about them.
00:24Authorities in numerous Nigerian states ordered faculties to close following the mass abduction in Niger and some other smaller hostage-taking in Kebi Nation on Monday when 20 pupils had been kidnapped from a boarding faculty.
00:36In any other improvement, 38 human beings kidnapped from a church service in Kwara Kingdom remaining week were freed on Sunday.
00:44Two people have been killed within the attack on Christ Apostolic Church in Iruku.
00:49Orders have been given for many colleges to close in the states of Kebi, Niger, Katsuna, Yob, and Kwar.
00:56News of the children's breakout brought welcome alleviation for households and for a rustic that has been agonizing over the fate of hundreds of schoolchildren abducted in Nigeria's northwest.
01:07According to a Christian institution involved in the case, the students managed to escape among Friday and Saturday in what is being defined as a brave and unstable try to flee their captors.
01:18The students and teachers have been taken from St. Mary's school in Papiri, Niger Nation.
01:24Earlier reports talked about 303 college students and 12 teachers being taken.
01:30Their number surpasses the 276 kidnapped in the course of the notorious Chibok mass abduction of 2014.
01:38Local police say armed men stormed St. Mary's at around 2 o'clock, 1 o'clock Greenwich Mean Time, abducting college students staying there.
01:46Niger Nation Governor Mohamed Amarabango introduced on Saturday that every one schools in the vicinity could close.
01:53Caution that became, no longer a time for blame game.
01:57Calling for the release of the abductees, Pope Leo XIV expressed, large unhappiness, and entreated the authorities to act unexpectedly.
02:06Dominic Adamu, whose daughters attend the college but have been not taken, instructed the BBC,
02:11Everybody is vulnerable. It took everybody with the aid of Marvel.
02:17One distressed girl tearfully informed the BBC that her nieces, aged 6 and 13, were kidnapped, including,
02:24I simply want them to come home.
02:26The Navy, police, and local vigilantes are accomplishing a look for the kids,
02:31combing close by forests and remote routes believed to had been utilized by the gunmen.
02:36Authorities in Niger State said St. Mary's School had neglected an order to shut all boarding facilities
02:42following intelligence warnings of a heightened risk of assaults.
02:46The faculty has now not commented on that allegation.
02:49The kidnapping of people for ransom by criminal gangs, recognized domestically as bandits,
02:55has become a prime hassle in lots of components of Nigeria.
02:59The fee of ransoms has been outlawed in and try to cut the supply of cash to the criminal gangs.
03:04However, it has had little effect.
03:06On Monday, extra than 20 schoolgirls, who the BBC has been informed are Muslim,
03:12were kidnapped from a boarding faculty in Kebi Nation.
03:15Authorities there have now ordered all secondary colleges and faculties to close.
Be the first to comment