Nigerian students freed
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October 2, 2010, Saturday
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KIDNAPPERS released 15 school children yesterday whom they abducted from a bus on their way to school near Nigeria's oil-rich and restive southern delta, a brazen attack highlighting the growing insecurity in the West African nation, a police spokesman said.
Federal police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said that authorities recovered the children early yesterday morning, four days after gunmen seized them from a bus traveling in Nigeria's Abia State. Ojukwu said the nursery and primary school students were in good condition.
Ojukwu said he did not have any details about what led to the children's release, nor did he know if a ransom had been paid. Typically, most kidnap victims are released in a week or two after their families pay whatever ransom they can scrape together.
Authorities said the gunmen stopped the school bus on Monday morning as it headed toward the Abayi International School. The gunmen seized all the mobile telephones from the students, the bus driver and a teacher onboard before taking the children away, officials said. The kidnappers apparently demanded more than US$130,000 to release the children, but later lowered the ransom amount.
Abia State, in Nigeria's southeast, sits near the Niger Delta, a maze of mangroves and creeks where foreign oil firms draw crude in Africa's most populous nation. The region has long been plagued by militant violence.
Federal police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said that authorities recovered the children early yesterday morning, four days after gunmen seized them from a bus traveling in Nigeria's Abia State. Ojukwu said the nursery and primary school students were in good condition.
Ojukwu said he did not have any details about what led to the children's release, nor did he know if a ransom had been paid. Typically, most kidnap victims are released in a week or two after their families pay whatever ransom they can scrape together.
Authorities said the gunmen stopped the school bus on Monday morning as it headed toward the Abayi International School. The gunmen seized all the mobile telephones from the students, the bus driver and a teacher onboard before taking the children away, officials said. The kidnappers apparently demanded more than US$130,000 to release the children, but later lowered the ransom amount.
Abia State, in Nigeria's southeast, sits near the Niger Delta, a maze of mangroves and creeks where foreign oil firms draw crude in Africa's most populous nation. The region has long been plagued by militant violence.
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