BBC News
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolboys kidnapped from a boarding school in north-western Nigeria have been released, local authorities told the BBC. A spokesman for the governor of Katsina state said 344 had been freed and were all in good condition. The attack had been claimed by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which released a video showing some of the boys shortly before the release. Governor Aminu Bello Masari said “we have recovered most of the boys; it’s not all of them.” Boko Haram has been notorious over the last decade for school kidnappings, including the abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls from Chibok in 2014.