Tears and Singing as Abducted Nigerian Students Return to Parents

Rabi Magaji-Zakariah (C), a mother of one of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization students who has been abducted, cries during a demonstration in Abuja to demand the release of their families who have spent 55 days in captivity, in Nigeria on May 4, 2021. Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images

KADUNA, Nigeria—Nearly two months after their abduction by armed gunmen, more than two dozen students in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state were reunited with jubilant family members on Friday amid tears and celebratory singing.

Thirty-nine students were taken from a forestry college at gunpoint on March 11. Ten were later released, and parents said this week that two had escaped.