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2021-07-26 Africa Subsaharan
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Kidnappers in Nigeria release 28 schoolchildren, another 81 still held, says negotiator
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[AlAhram] A first batch of 28 children was released two days after the raid
Kidnappers who raided a boarding school in northern Nigeria earlier this month released 28 children on Sunday but another 81 remain in captivity, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for their release.
The attack on the Bethel Baptist High School
...definitely not a madrassah, making it even more likely to be targetted... in the state of Kaduna was the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria carried out by Islamist snuffies and more recently, criminal gangs.
Parents told Rooters that 180 students typically attend the school, and that pupils were in the process of sitting exams.
"Twenty-eight students were freed this morning," Reverend Ite Joseph Hayab told Rooters on phone. "Quite a number of the students before now escaped ... but 81 are still in captivity."
Nigerian authorities have attributed the kidnappings to what they call armed bandidos seeking ransom payments.
The police and Kaduna state commissioner for internal security and home affairs were not immediately available for comment.
Radika Bivan, a parent whose daughter is among those kidnapped confirmed that 28 of them were released but said she did not see her child among them.
Kaduna authorities had ordered the closure of the school and 12 others in the area following the kidnap, without saying when they may reopen.
Schools have become targets for mass kidnappings for ransom in northern Nigeria by gangs. Such kidnappings in Nigeria were first carried out by jihadist group Boko Haram
 ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
, and later its offshoot Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
West Africa Province, but the tactic has now been adopted by other criminal gangs.
Making tracking who did what a bit difficult at a distance. If only they politely left proper calling cards with their contact information after each attack. 
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