A few days before they were supposed to pay a $690,000 ransom, the Nigerian army on Sunday freed students and staff who had been kidnapped by gunmen from a school in the north of the nation.
Nigeria: 287 pupils are kidnapped by gunmen when they raid a school.
The headmaster told authorities that this was the nation's second major kidnapping in less than a week. Gunmen broke into a school in the northwest of the country on Thursday, March 7, and took at least 287 people hostage.
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