The scholars have been amongst greater than 100 taken on July 5 from the Bethel Baptist Excessive Faculty in northwest Nigeria.
Bandits have launched 15 extra college students kidnapped final month from a Baptist faculty in northwest Nigeria, officers stated.
Faculty administrator Reverend John Hayab advised Reuters information company on Sunday that oldsters had raised and paid an undisclosed ransom to free the scholars, who have been amongst greater than 100 taken on July 5 from the Bethel Baptist Excessive Faculty.
“The scholars are already being launched and could be handed over to their mother and father any second from now,” Hayab stated.
Hayab had beforehand stated the abductors have been searching for 1 million naira ($2,430) per scholar.
To this point, 56 of the kidnapped Bethel college students have been launched or escaped from their abductors.
“We nonetheless have 65 extra of our college students with the bandits and we’re working to see they are often freed,” Hayab advised the AFP information company on Sunday.
Kaduna state’s commissioner for inside safety, Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the discharge however didn’t instantly touch upon the ransom fee.
The Bethel abduction was a part of a string of kidnappings by armed gangs recognized regionally as bandits who’ve lengthy terrorised northwest and central Nigeria, looting, stealing cattle and kidnapping for ransom.
About 1,000 college students have been kidnapped since December after gangs began to focus on faculties and schools. Most have been launched after negotiations.
However many hostages stay captive, together with greater than 136 youngsters kidnapped in June from an Islamic seminary in Tegina in central Niger State, 4 of whom have died in captivity.
On Friday, the gangs requested the seminary to ship clothes for the schoolchildren who’ve been in the identical garments for months, in response to one of many mother and father.
“They phoned the pinnacle of the varsity and advised him to ask mother and father to ship the youngsters new garments as those they’ve been carrying are in shreds,” Maryam Mohammed, whose seven youngsters are among the many hostages, advised AFP.
Final week, 9 pupils of an Islamic seminary have been additionally seized by motorcycle-riding attackers in Katsina State, the second such incident in as many months.
President Muhammadu Buhari in February referred to as on state governments to cease paying bandits, and Kaduna Governor Nasir el-Rufai publicly refuses to pay.
However determined mother and father and communities usually elevate and pay ransoms themselves.