28 Abducted Baptist School Students Freed in Nigeria

28 Abducted Baptist School Students Freed in Nigeria
Parents are reunited with released students of the Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi, Nigeria, on July 25, 2021. AP Photo
The Associated Press
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KANO, Nigeria—Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the more than 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi.

Church officials handed those children over to their parents at the school on Sunday. But the Rev. Israel Akanji, president of the Baptist Convention, said more than 80 other children are still being held by the gunmen.