A group of 100 Nigerian schoolchildren who were rescued from kidnappers were set to be reunited with their families on Tuesday after undergoing medical checks in central Niger state, the Christian Association of Nigeria CAN said.
The students are among more than 300 pupils and 12 staff seized by gunmen from St Marys boarding school in the early hours on November 21 in one of the countrys worst mass kidnappings in more than a decade.
We are in transit from Minna to Papiri with the 100 students. I believe their parents are waiting at the school to receive us, said Daniel Atori, CAN spokesperson in Niger.
