Nigeria, Dec. 8 -- Nigeria has secured the release of 100 schoolchildren taken during last month's mass abduction at St Mary's Private Catholic Primary and Secondary School in Papiri, Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State.

Channels Television, which first reported the development on Sunday, said the children were among the 315 people seized when armed men stormed the remote community in Niger State on 21 November. The victims included 303 students and 12 teachers.

The attackers, who rode on motorbikes, invaded the school at about 2 am and operated for nearly three hours, moving from dormitory to dormitory before marching the captives into nearby forests.

Fifty pupils managed to escape, but 265 victims, including 253 children, rem...