Abductors free 12 young girls kidnapped in Nigeria

LAGOS — The gang that abducted a group of young women in Nigeria’s northeast state of Borno a week ago released the remaining 12 late Saturday, a local official told AFP. Their release comes as the country has experienced a surge in abductions of young people over the past two weeks. “All the 12 were released,” Abubakar Mazhinyi, president of the local Askira-Uba council, told AFP, adding that they had been taken to hospital. READ: Gunmen seize 315 in latest Nigerian mass school kidnapping “They (jihadists) spoke to the parents,” he said. “It was the parents that went to the […]...

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