137 school children abducted by gunmen in Nigeria freed, undertaking ‘psychosocial counseling,’ the authority announced

At minimum 137 school children who were abducted by armed gunmen in Nigeria prior this month have been released, the governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state Uba Sani revealed in a TV interview broadcasted on Sunday.

In the interview broadcast on Nigeria’s Channels Television, Sani displayed he had met with the children’s families.

“I am happy, the families are happy, we are all happy the children have been rescued,” he told the interviewer.

Nevertheless, Sani spoke that a teacher had died after developing “some difficulties” while in imprisonment, without offering further detail.

On March 7, more than 300 students were kidnaped by armed outlaws on motorcycles who stormed the LEA Primary and Secondary School in Kuriga village, in Kaduna’s Chikun district, as state police statement specified.