Families of kidnapped Nigerian boys fear time running out


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  • Thursday, 17 Dec 2020

People pray in a mosque at the Government Science school in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina state, Nigeria December 16, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

KANKARA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Families of more than 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys worried they may be radicalised or held for years as security forces combed a vast forest on Wednesday for armed captors possibly from the jihadist Boko Haram movement.

According to an unverified audio clip, the group - whose name means "Western education is forbidden" - was responsible for last week's raid on an all-boys school in the town of Kankara in northwestern Katsina state.

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