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Scores Of Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolchildren Rescued

The children were rescued after being abducted on Saturday in the second mass kidnapping of schoolchildren in Nigeria's Katsina state in eight days.
Released students from the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina State, Nigeria are led into the Government House upon their release on Friday.

At least 84 kidnapped schoolchildren were rescued following a gun battle between their abductors, security forces and local vigilantes, according to Nigerian police. The children were taken

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