Overview
- The final group of 130 students and teachers, released on Sunday, was brought back to Papiri late Wednesday night for reunions with relatives.
- Authorities revised the total number abducted in the Nov. 21 raid to 230 after initially reporting 303 students and 12 teachers, and they say everyone has now been freed.
- Most of the children taken from St. Mary's Catholic School were ages 10 to 17, and a student recounted that gunmen threatened to shoot captives during the attack.
- A presidential aide credited a military-intelligence operation for the releases, though officials have provided no details on how the captives were secured.
- The Papiri abductions highlight a broader pattern of ransom-driven school kidnappings in Nigeria that has triggered heightened security measures.