Gunmen in Nigeria have released the remaining 29 students, mostly Christians, kidnapped from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Kaduna state, after almost two months in captivity.
The newly released students looked weak and were wearing dirty, torn clothes when they arrived at the police headquarters in Kaduna city on May 5. One was taken to a hospital, and another female student had to be carried into the building.
During their ordeal the forestry college students were filmed at gunpoint by their captors.
Ten of the 39 students kidnapped from the college on March 11 were released previously in groups of five.
According to media reports, more than 700 students have been abducted from schools in northwest Nigeria since December 2020 in a wave of kidnappings.
Two Christian women were among five students murdered by kidnappers following their abduction from Greenfield University in Kaduna state on April 20.
