FILE PHOTO: A door leave is seen laid aside a day after over 300 school girls were abducted by bandits away from the JSS school in Zamfara, Nigeria February 27, 2021. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
GUSAU, Nigeria (Reuters) - Relatives of more than 300 girls abducted by gunmen from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria endured an agonising wait for news amid rumours that they had been released, while security forces continued their search on Sunday.
An armed gang kidnapped 317 girls from the Government Girls Science Secondary School in the town of Jangebe, in Zamfara state, at around 1 a.m. on Friday.
