A total of 100 of the children abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school last month have been released, the Christian Association of Nigeria has said.
At least 303 children were seized at the Niger state school together with 12 of their teachers when gunmen attacked the St Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri community on November 21.
Fifty escaped in the hours that followed and more than 100 students remain in captivity.
Daniel Atori, a spokesman for the association in Niger state, told The Associated Press that the church learned the children were released during the weekend and that they will be taken to Niger state’s capital of Minna to meet with officials.
It was not immediately clear how the 100 children were freed or if any arrests were made.
No group has claimed responsibility for the abductions but locals blamed the armed gangs that target schools and travellers in kidnappings for ransoms across Nigeria’s conflict-battered north.
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