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Curfew and market closures for Nigerian town of kidnapped girls

Published 04/03/2021, 11:05
Updated 04/03/2021, 11:06
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, March 4 (Reuters) - Authorities in
Nigeria's Zamfara state have declared a curfew and shut market
activities after violence marred the return of hundreds of
kidnapped schoolgirls to their families, a state spokesman said
on Thursday.
Late on Wednesday, gunshots and chaos erupted during what
should have been the joyous return of 279 schoolgirls abducted
by gunmen from their boarding school last week. The government secured the release of the girls on Tuesday,
but they had been undergoing medical checks and treatment.
At least three people were shot, but it was not clear by
whom. A Reuters witness saw police firing tear gas at a group of
protesters outside the school, and soldiers shooting into the
air, after impatient parents burst in and grabbed their children
to take them home.
Zamfara state spokesman Sulaiman Tunau Anka called it
"unfortunate civil disobedience" and said the governor had
imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the town, Jangebe, to prevent a
further breach of the peace.
Anka also said market activities would be suspended until
further notice, as authorities had uncovered "strong evidence"
that these activities had aided and abetted bandits. He did not
elaborate.
"The state government is poised to ensure safety of lives
and properties of its citizens at all cost," Anka said.
Earlier this week, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a
massive military deployment to Zamfara, banned mining and
imposed a no-fly zone in the state. The Jangebe abduction was the third mass school kidnapping
in northern Nigeria since December.
The kidnappings for ransom are the latest manifestation of
years of festering banditry that has rendered large swathes of
northwest Nigeria lawless.

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