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Many have been found or rescued by the army, or freed years later after negotiations between the government and Boko Haram finally resulted in a hefty ransom, according to sources.Image: Times Media
300 SCHOOLGIRLS KIDNAPPED

Gunmen kidnap more than 300 schoolgirls in increasingly lawless northwest Nigeria

Gunmen seized more than 300 girls in a nighttime raid on a school in northwest Nigeria on Friday and are believed to be holding some of them in a forest, police said. It was the second such kidnapping in little over a week in a region…

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