11 out of the 200 abducted students of Islamiyya school in Niger State have been released by their captors. The children who were between the ages of four and five years were released on Tuesday, 48 hours after they were abducted by armed bandits from the school located in Tegina, Rafi local government area of the state. A resident of the community, Zayyad Mohammed who confirmed the release of the students to journalists, said the children were freed because they were slowing down the movement of the kidnappers. According to Mohammed, the children were found in a bush by hunters. The state government also confirmed the development in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mary Noel Berge. She said: “11 children who were too young and couldn’t walk, among the kidnapped Islamiyya students, were released by the gunmen.