More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys reunited with parents

In Nigeria, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were reunited with their families late on Friday.

The students’ nightmare began on the night of December 11 when they were seized by men armed with AK-47 rifles from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara village in Katsina state in northwestern Nigeria.

They were marched through a forest and forced to lie in the dirt amid gun battles between their captors and the troops pursuing them. The boys described walking through the bush and different forests, stopping during the days and walking at night without shoes, stepping over thorns and stones.

Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist rebels claimed responsibility for the abduction.