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scarletwoman

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4. Not really. The last mass kidnapping of school kids was boys:
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 01:51 PM
Feb 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/africa/nigerian-schoolboys-released-intl/index.html

344 kidnapped Nigerian boys freed, says state official

(CNN)Hundreds of schoolboys who were abducted last week in northwestern Nigeria have been freed, according to a state official.

More than 300 schoolboys were missing for nearly a week, after an attack on the Government Science Secondary School Kankara in Katsina State. The Nigerian military late on Thursday rescued 344 of them, and they have been received at the state capital by governor Aminu Bello Masari, according to his spokesperson, Abdu Labaran.

Boko Haram was not involved, he added, but rather the boys were kidnapped by bandits masquerading as the Islamist terrorist group.


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