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Around 300 male students of "different nationalities" were rescued by police from an Islamic seminary

Hundreds Of 'Abused' Captives Freed From Nigeria Islamic School

Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna have rescued more than 300 male students being held at an Islamic school where many had been tortured and sexually abused, a police spokesman said Friday.Officers raided a building in the Rigasa area of the city on Thursday where the victims including adults and minors were kept in "the most debasing and inhuman conditions in the name of teaching them the Koran and reforming them", Kaduna state police spokesman Yakubu Sabo told AFP.

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