Nearly three hundred girls, kidnapped last week from a school in Nigeria, were rescued from kidnappers four days after their disappearance, CNN reports citing local authorities.
The return of the children was announced by the representative of the regional government, Yusuf Idris. At the same time, he did not tell how exactly the schoolgirls were rescued and whether they had to pay the ransom, but they all returned unharmed.
Similar raids have happened before. On February 17, it was reported that 27 schoolchildren were abducted in the state of Niger. Their whereabouts have not yet been established. In December last year, the attackers also kidnapped more than 300 boys, but they were later released.
The attacks are often thought to be behind the attacks by radical Islamists from Boko Haram, an organization that swore allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group (banned in Russia) in March 2015 and changed its name to Islamic State West African Province. However, other groups operating in the region are also involved in kidnapping.
