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Four more abducted Kaduna school students escape from captivity

Parents of abducted school children of the Bethel Baptist High School wait for news on their children in Damishi Kaduna, Nigeria, Tuesday July 6, 2021. Dozens of students were abducted Monday by suspected bandits at Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi town of Chikun Local Government Area in Kaduna State in northern Nigeria. Bandits stormed the school early Monday, around 2 a.m., shooting sporadically as they kidnapped the students, said police spokesman Mohammed Jalije. (AP Photo)

Four students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna, have escaped from their captors.
They escaped from the camp on Monday where they were kept since July 19, 2021.
An aunt to one of the students, who craved anonymity confirmed this on Monday.
According to her, the teenagers had spent five days roaming inside the forest before they finally met another herder who directed them out of the forest.
It was also gathered that one of the escaped students who could recall his father’s phone number borrowed a phone to call home before his father went to pick them up.
“The children were found around Kasuwar Magani on Sunday evening hours after 28 students of the school were released by the bandits. It was the school management that called my in-law to inform us,” she said.
Two other students had escaped from the camps before they were recovered by the police.