Nearly three hundred girls abducted from school in Nigeria last week were rescued from their abductors four days after their disappearance, CNN reports citing local authorities.
The return of the children was announced by the representative of the regional government, Yusuf Idris. At the same time, he did not tell how exactly they managed to rescue the schoolgirls and whether they had to pay a ransom, but they all returned unharmed.
Similar raids have happened before. On February 17, it was reported that 27 schoolchildren were abducted in Niger State. Their whereabouts have not yet been established. In December last year, attackers also kidnapped more than 300 boys, but later released them.
It is often believed that radical Islamists from Boko Haram are behind the attacks, an organization that in March 2015 swore allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group (banned in Russia) and changed its name to West African province of the Islamic State “. However, other groups operating in the region are also involved in kidnapping.