Gunmen release 10 more Nigerian students after fresh ransom – By Chinedu Asadu (Associated Press) / Sept 26 2021
Gunmen have released 10 students in Nigeria’s north nearly three months after they were abducted from their school in the state of Kaduna
LAGOS, Nigeria — Gunmen in Nigeria on Sunday freed 10 students abducted in the northwest Kaduna state after collecting a ransom, a school official told The Associated Press.
The Rev. John Hayab said the students were released on Sunday afternoon, nearly three months after they were seized by the gunmen in Kaduna. Their release comes about a week after 10 of their other schoolmates were also released.
Eleven of the 121 students of the Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna are still being held, Hayab said, expressing frustration at the refusal of the gunmen to release all the students at once.
“If we have the power, we would have brought them,” he told AP when asked why the gunmen held back 11 students. “The bandits are the ones in control, we now have to play along softly and get our children back.”
