Nigerian kidnappers have freed scores of students abducted from three schools in the northwest this year, officials said Friday, following a burst of sudden releases. The mass abductions were part of a string of kidnapping for ransom attacks on Nigerian schools and colleges this year by heavily armed gangs known locally as bandits. Nearly 100 pupils abducted from an Islamic …
Gunmen on Sunday kidnapped scores of children from an Islamic seminary in central Nigeria’s Niger state, police and residents said. Some 200 children were at the school at the time of the attack, the Niger state government said on Twitter, adding that “an unconfirmed number” were taken. Niger state police spokesman Wasiu Abiodun said the attackers arrived on motorbikes in …
Zakir Naik isn’t the first prominent figure or institution whose name the Delhi Police has mentioned in their investigation via brief notes or applications. In its charge sheet on the violence near Rajdhani School in Shiv Vihar, the police alleged that the main accused Faisal Farooque was in touch with Tablighi Jamaat and the Darul Uloom Seminary in Deoband. Sources …
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