Updated On: 20 December, 2020 09:19 AM IST | United Nations | Agencies
More than 300 schoolboys were reportedly missing for nearly a week, after an attack on the Government Science Secondary School Kankara in Katsina State.

A man reacts as he reunites with his son who was among those kidnapped in Katsina. Pic/AFP
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday welcomed the release of abducted children in Nigeria.
Through a statement attributable to his deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq, the UN chief welcomed the release on December 17 of some of the children who had been abducted from a secondary school in Katsina State, Nigeria, on December 11.