By our reporter/ After spending 75 days in captivity, ten more students from the Bethel Baptist Secondary School in Kaduna State abducted by bandits have regained their freedom.
The students regained their freedom on Saturday, following their abduction
on July 5 by a group of armed bandits who invaded the school in Chikun Local Government Area of the state.
Police authorities in Kaduna have yet to confirm the release of the students but a senior official of the school said the students were released after an undisclosed amount of money was paid to the bandits.
According to him, the students have since been reunited with their parents and taken to the hospital for treatment.
It will be recalled that a total of 121 students were forcefully abducted by bandits when the school came under attack over two months ago.
The bandits later released 28 of them on July 25, after a ransom was reportedly paid to them.
Thereafter, 15 additional students regained freedom from the captivity of their abductors on August 22.
More students were later freed, and the release of the new batch of students on Saturday brings the total number of students freed so far to 100.
However, 21 other students of the school are still in the custody of the bandits.
The spate of kidnapping for ransom payment spiked recently in Kaduna, with schoolchildren as targets for bandits.
Kaduna is not the only state battling banditry. These criminals have also attacked schools in other parts of the North West and North Central, with Zamfara among the worst-hit states.
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