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Armed men stormed her school in a kidnapping raid. Then she found her family in her captors' hideout
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Habiba Iliyasu was asleep in her school dormitory in northwestern Nigeria when a group of armed men burst in and abducted her. When she was taken to the kidnapper's hideout, she saw two people she recognized instantly -- her father and her sister.
The schoolgirls -- 279 in total -- were rounded up by the men, who arrived at the school on motorbikes. "They fired guns. Some of them came into the school while others stayed at the gate," Habiba recalls of the ordeal on February 26, which prompted global outrage and prayers from Pope Francis for the release of the captives.More Related News
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