GUSAU, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen have released girls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, the governor said in a tweet on Tuesday.
An armed gang abducted 317 girls from the Government Girls Science Secondary School in the town of Jangebe at around 1 a.m. on Friday.
(Reporting by Afolabi Sotunde in Gusaur and Alexis Akwagyiram in Lagos; Writing by Alexis Akwagyiram; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)