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Nigerian boy tells of abduction by extremists and his escape

by Lekan Oyekanmi
| December 17, 2020 5:09 AM

KANKARA, Nigeria (AP) — It was late Friday night when Usama Aminu heard gunshots, at first thinking they had come from the nearby town. As soon as he and the other students at the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara realized there was a raid on the school, they scrambled out of their dormitory and scaled the school's fence in the pandemonium.

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