After 11 days in the kidnappers den, students abducted from Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State, have regained freedom.
The Nigerian Television Authority confirmed the news via its verified Facebook page overnight.
Nigerian Police had reported that gunmen abducted more than 70 students in the country’s northwest state of Zamfara.
Zamfara State Police spokesman, Mohammed Shehu, had said in a statement that a large group of attackers stormed the Government Day Secondary School in the remote village of Kaya that Wednesday morning, seizing the pupils. He had given the number of seized children as 73.
The development comes after telecommunication networks were shut down in Zamfara as a means to tackle banditry.
Details of their release are yet to be known, if any ransom was paid before the pupils were released.
Following the abduction, the Zamfara State Government had ordered the immediate deboarding of boarding facilities in 30 schools.
