Boko Haram claims kidnapping of more than 300 Nigeria schoolboys

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Published on December 15, 2020 by

In his voice message, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said his militia was behind Friday’s nighttime kidnapping of more than 300 schoolboys, online newspaper The Daily Nigerian reported on Tuesday. At least 333 pupils were missing from the all-boy Government Science Secondary School at Kankara town in northwest Katsina state, Governor Aminu Bello Masari said on Sunday. Katsina is the home state of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who has made the fight against the Islamist group a priority. His spokesman Garba Shehu said Monday that the “kidnappers had made contact,” adding that negotiations over the children’s “safety and return” were taking place. After talks with a visiting Buhari, Governor Masara said they were “making progress and the outlook is positive.”

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