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Twenty-four schoolgirls abducted in northwest Nigeria were released Sunday following a security operation. Their kidnapping was one of several mass abductions across the country over the previous week that left hundreds still missing.

The students were taken on Nov. 17 from Government Girls Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi state, when armed men entered the compound around 4 a.m. local time, the U.K.-based group Christian Solidarity Worldwide said in a statement sent to The Christian Post.

The attackers killed the assistant principal on-site and left a security guard severely injured. He later died in the hospital. The abduction occurred shortly after a military detachment had withdrawn from the school premises.

Two of the girls escaped in the hours after the attack. The remai

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