00:00One hundred school children were released on Monday in Nigeria's Niger state after they were abducted last month from a Catholic school.
00:10It was one of the country's biggest mass kidnappings in recent years.
00:14The released children arrived at the government house at Niger's capital, Minna, and were handed over to the state governor.
00:22One of the children, Florence Michael, said they slept in a forest.
00:27The Christian Association of Nigeria said gunmen seized more than 300 pupils and 12 staff from St. Mary's Catholic School in Papiri village on the 21st of November.
00:49Fifty of the children managed to escape. Here's Niger state governor Muhammad Umabaku.
00:56I want to reassure parents and guardians of these children that they will be safely delivered to them very, very soon.
01:06We have called on medical health workers to come and look at them. They will be checked properly before taking them back to the parents.
01:16He added that authorities were working to secure the remaining hostages.
01:21After news of the rescue, many parents expressed anguish at the lack of information from authorities on whether their children were among those freed.
01:30Nigerian government officials did not publicly comment on how the rescue was conducted.
01:36And it was unclear whether the children had been freed for negotiations, ransom payments, or a security operation.
01:46The abduction caused outrage over worsening insecurity in northern Nigeria, where armed gangs frequently target schools for ransom.
01:54School kidnapping surged after Boko Haram militants abducted 276 girls from Chibok in 2014.
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