Nigerian army 救助（する）s 誘拐するd Kaduna students
By Ahmed Kingimi
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, March 24 (Reuters) - The Nigerian army on Sunday 救助（する）d students and staff who were 誘拐するd by gunmen from a school in the country's north earlier this month, the 軍の said, days before the 最終期限 for a 身代金 支払い（額）.
School 公式の／役人s and 居住（者）s had said 287 students were taken on March 7 in the town of Kuriga in the northwestern 明言する／公表する of Kaduna. A 軍の spokesperson said 137 人質s - 76 of them 女性（の） and 61 male - were 救助（する）d in the 早期に hours of Sunday in 隣人ing 明言する／公表する of Zamfara.
"In the 早期に hours of 24 March 2024, the 軍の working with 地元の 当局 and 政府 機関s across the country in a 連係させた search and 救助（する） 操作／手術 救助（する）d the 人質s," Major General Edward Buba said in a 声明.
A 安全 source said the students had been 解放する／自由なd in a forest and were 存在 護衛するd to Kaduna's 資本／首都 for 医療の 実験（する）s before 存在 再会させるd with their families.
Kaduna 知事 Uba Sani earlier put the number of kidnapped at over 200. Given the discrepancies in numbers 報告（する）／憶測d, it was 不明瞭な if any 人質s remained 逮捕（する）d. Some Kuriga 年上のs said Sani had told them all 人質s had been 解放する／自由なd.
Jibrin Aminu, a spokesperson for the Kuriga parents, said he would 明らかにする numbers on Monday when families had been given the chance to "take account of their kidnapped children."
The 救助（する） took place just days before a 最終期限 to 支払う／賃金 a 1 billion naira ($690,000) 身代金 for their 解放（する）.
誘拐s at Nigerian schools were first carried out by jihadist group Boko Haram, which 掴むd 276 students from a girls' school in Chibok in northeastern Borno 明言する／公表する a １０年間 ago. Some of the girls ha ve never been 解放（する）d.
But since then the 手段 has been 可決する・採択するd by 犯罪の ギャング（団）s without 観念的な affiliation.
Kidnappings by 犯罪の ギャング（団）s 需要・要求するing 身代金s have become an almost daily occurrence, 特に in northern Nigeria, 涙／ほころびing apart families and communities that must pool 貯金 to 支払う／賃金 身代金s, often 軍隊ing them to sell land, cattle and 穀物 to 安全な・保証する the 解放（する） of their loved ones. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Ahmed Kingimi in Maiduguri with 付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Camillus Eboh in Abuja and Garba Muhammad in Kaduna; 令状ing by MacDonald Dzirutwe; editing by David Goodman, 示す Heinrich and Ros Russell)
