LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Students, teachers and relatives abducted two weeks ago from a school in northern Nigeria have been freed. The students, teachers and family members were abducted Feb. 17 by gunmen from the Government Science College Kagara. Niger State Gov. Abubakar Sani Bello said he received 24 students, six staff and eight relatives on Saturday after they were released early in the morning. Their release was announced a day after police said gunmen had abducted 317 girls from a boarding school elsewhere in northern Nigeria. Nigeria has seen several such attacks and kidnappings over the years. The country’s president says that “we will not succumb to blackmail by bandits and criminals who target innocent school students in the expectation of huge ransom payments.”
