Gunmen release five sisters in Nigeria after parents pay ransom


  • World
  • Wednesday, 09 Nov 2022

BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen have freed five sisters abducted six months ago from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria after their parents paid ransom money to secure their release, police and relatives said.

The bandits kidnapped 11 schoolgirls, including the sisters, from a secondary school in Zamfara state in March and later released six of them. The sisters were detained because the kidnappers found out their father had previously worked as a senior government official in the state.

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