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Nigerian Farmers Help Some Abducted Students to Escape
A classroom at St. Mary's Catholic School in Papiri, Agwarra local government, Niger state, on Nov. 23.
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Fifty Nigerian students who were abducted from a Catholic school escaped from their captors over the weekend.
Some of the students hid in the bush, while local farmers helped others return home, Daniel Atori, a spokesman for the founder of St Mary’s school in Papiri in the northern Niger state, said in a statement on Sunday. More than 250 students and teachers who were seized from the primary school on Nov. 22 remain in captivity.