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Nigerian Police Rescue 67 From 'Inhuman' Conditions at Islamic 'School'

Reuters

   MAIDUGUIRI, NIGERIA - Police in northern Nigeria rescued nearly 70 men
   and boys from a second purported Islamic school where they were
   shackled and subjected to "inhuman and degrading treatments."

   The raid in Katsina, the northwestern home state of President Muhammadu
   Buhari, came less a month after about 300 men and boys were freed from
   another supposed Islamic school in neighboring Kaduna state where they
   were allegedly tortured and sexually abused.

   "In the course of investigation, sixty-seven persons from the ages of 7
   to 40 years were found shackled with chains," Katsina police spokesman
   Sanusi Buba said in a statement.

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