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Violence as kidnapped schoolgirls go home

Violence as kidnapped schoolgirls go home

AFOLABI SOTUNDE and SEUN SANNI POLICE fired tear gas and soldiers shot their guns into the air in northwest Nigeria as violence broke out amid the return of 279 kidnapped schoolgirls to their families on Wednesday, a day after their release, according to two Reuters witnesses. The kidnapping of the girls from their school in the town of Jangebe, Zamfara state, had drawn the world's attention to a remote corner of northwest Nigeria, and Wednesday was supposed to be a happy end to the children's five-day ordeal with their handover to their families. At least three people were shot, but…
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