Abducted children freed in Nigeria
Gunmen in Nigeria freed dozens of children who were kidnapped earlier In the year from an Islamic seminary in the Niger state in Nigeria. Six of the pupils captured in the raid died while in captivity while a further 15 escaped in June, according to school officials. The students were released after their parents paid a ransom of $ 140,000 ( 70 million naira) and gave motorbikes in ransom to the kidnappers, according to the school headmaster Abubakar Alhassan. Hundreds of children have been abducted in northern Nigeria since last year December in what has become an increasing pattern of kidnappings and subsequent ransom payments in some of the abductions.