{"id":668431,"date":"2019-09-29T18:20:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/?p=668431"},"modified":"2019-09-29T18:20:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:20:03","slug":"hundreds-of-chained-captives-released-from-nigerian-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2019\/09\/29\/hundreds-of-chained-captives-released-from-nigerian-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of chained captives released from Nigerian school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hundreds of chained captives released from Nigerian school\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JU0jjYnNaeA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hundreds of chained captives released from Nigerian school<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By&nbsp;Michael Daventry&nbsp; with&nbsp;Reuters\u2022 last updated: 28\/09\/2019 &#8211; 11:55<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/04\/19\/20\/14\/602x338_cmsv2_614e7ac9-5261-5b40-9cd2-c6c3c3255c04-4192014.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of chained captives released from Nigerian school\" title=\"Hundreds of chained captives released from Nigerian school\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 300 captives, many of them children, have been rescued in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The children aged young as five were found in a building that was thought to be an Islamic school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said they had been tortured, starved and sexually abused. Some of them were chained up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8221;This place is neither a rehab or an Islamic school because you can see it for yourselves,&#8221; Ali Janga, police commissioner for Kaduna state, told reporters outside the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said there were many small children and that some had been brought from neighbouring countries including Burkina Faso, Mali and Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They were used, dehumanized, you can see it yourself,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pictures of Thursday&#8217;s raid were shown on local television in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said seven teachers from the school had been arrested, while the children are being housed at a nearby stadium as the authorities try to trace their parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Islamic schools, known as Almajiris, are common across the mostly Muslim north of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria&#8217;s population is half Christian, half Muslim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many parents in the north, which is the poorest part of a country, choose to leave their children to board at such schools. Most adults live on less than $2 a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari said it planned to eventually ban the schools, although it would not happen immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video editor<strong> \u2022 Michael Daventry<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of chained captives released from Nigerian school By&nbsp;Michael Daventry&nbsp; with&nbsp;Reuters\u2022 last updated: 28\/09\/2019 &#8211; 11:55 More than 300 captives, many of them children, have been rescued in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna. The children aged young as five were found in a building that was thought to be an Islamic school. 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