More abducted Nigerian students have been released

More Nigerian children abducted last month from a Catholic school in Niger state have been released following one of the country's biggest mass kidnappings of recent ⁠years.



But it was also not immediately clear how the pupils were freed.



Earlier on Sunday, ARISE news channel quoted Nigerian officials as saying that 130 pupils had been released.



The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has previously said that gunmen seized ⁠more than 300 pupils and 12 staff from St Mary's Catholic School in Papiri village on November 21.



Fifty of the children managed to escape, CAN confirmed, while Nigeria's government said on December 8 that it had managed to rescue 100 of those abducted.