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Just In: Another 15 Kidnapped Bethel school students freed

Another fifteen  abducted students of Bethel Baptist Secondary School in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state have regained their freedom.

The government or security agencies are yet to confirm the development, but a source in the school disclosed that the 15 students were released on Sunday after a ransom was paid to the bandits.

Bandits suspected to be kidnappers had on July 5 attacked the school and took away 121 students from their hostels.

The bandits, according to the information scooped from Channels Television, released 28 of them on July 25, after a ransom was allegedly paid to the kidnappers, while the rest managed to escape from the captors between July 22 and August 3.

With this development, the release of the 15 students brings the total number of those freed so far to 56 while 65 others are still in captivity.

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