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Beaten and cowering, kidnapped Nigerian students beg for help

Students of the Federal College of Forestry and Mechanisation are seen been driven to a bus park by the military, in Kaduna, Nigeria, on March 13, 2021. [Reuters]

A video of some of the students kidnapped from a college in northwest Nigeria emerged on Saturday, showing them cowering on a forest floor as armed captors hit them with sticks.

Thirty nine students are missing after gunmen stormed the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Kaduna state overnight on Thursday, the fourth school abduction in northern Nigeria since December.

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