{"id":58822,"date":"2025-11-30T06:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/12-young-girls-kidnapped-in-nigeria-freed-by-abductors-local-official-says\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T06:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:02:29","slug":"12-young-girls-kidnapped-in-nigeria-freed-by-abductors-local-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/12-young-girls-kidnapped-in-nigeria-freed-by-abductors-local-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"12 young girls kidnapped in Nigeria freed by abductors, local official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The gang that abducted a group of young women in <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-says-christians-face-existential-threat-in-nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Nigeria<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s northeast state of Borno a week ago released the remaining 12 late Saturday, a local official told AFP.<\/p>\n<p> Their release comes as the country <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nigeria-schoolgirls-abducted-gunmen-attack-high-school\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">has experienced a surge in abductions<\/a><\/span> of young people over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;All the 12 were released,&#8221; Abubakar Mazhinyi, president of the local Askira-Uba council, told AFP, adding that they had been taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;They (jihadists) spoke to the parents,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was the parents that went to the bush.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Last Saturday, 13 Muslim women and girls, aged between 16 and 23 were kidnapped near their farms in land near a nature reserve that has become a hideout for the jihadists.<\/p>\n<p> The gang freed one of them after she told them she was nursing a baby.<\/p>\n<p> No ransom was paid, with the jihadists releasing the women because the army was in pursuit, said Mazhinyi.<\/p>\n<p> Borno state is at the heart of Nigeria&#8217;s conflict with the jihadists, which started 16 years ago with\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/nigeria-in-turmoil\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Boko Haram<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p> It was the scene of the 2014 kidnapping of nearly 300 girls in <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/chibok-girls-update-survivors-of-boko-haram-kidnapping-receive-medical-care-in-new-york-60-minutes-2019-12-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Chibok<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p> While the jihadist threat has diminished, both Boko Haram and rival breakaway Islamic State West Africa Province are still dangerous. <\/p>\n<p> The conflict there has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people and forced more than two million people to flee their homes, according to UN figures.<\/p>\n<p> The violence is not confined to the northeast of the country.<\/p>\n<p> Last week, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/abducted-nigerian-students-escape-captivity-children-teachers-still-missing\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">armed gangs seized<\/a><\/span> more than 300 children from a Catholic school in the central-western Niger delta state.<\/p>\n<p> Although some managed to escape, more than 265 children and teachers are still being held.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/30\/1c0e9d09-d4db-4b4b-92a2-e461ac696989\/thumbnail\/620x414\/d21bbe6852c4e0b44d84e86abea6593e\/gettyimages-2247525616.jpg#\" alt=\"Nigeria \" height=\"414\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/30\/1c0e9d09-d4db-4b4b-92a2-e461ac696989\/thumbnail\/620x414\/d21bbe6852c4e0b44d84e86abea6593e\/gettyimages-2247525616.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/30\/1c0e9d09-d4db-4b4b-92a2-e461ac696989\/thumbnail\/1240x828\/0412892bdae07e02f87be8bc77b36fcf\/gettyimages-2247525616.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Belongings are seen outside a student dormitory at St. Mary&#8217;s Catholic School in Papiri, Agwarra local government, Niger state, on Nov. 23, 2025. Fifty of the more than 300 children snatched by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria have escaped their captors, a Christian group said in a statement on November 23.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Ifeanyi Immanuel Bakwenye \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These abductions have been claimed by bandits rather than jihadists.<\/p>\n<p> Nigeria has a history of mass kidnappings, mostly carried out by criminal gangs looking for ransom payments and targeting vulnerable populations in poorly policed rural areas.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags 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