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KATSINA, Nigeria, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Police freed about 500
men and boys from an Islamic school in northern Nigeria on
Wednesday where some had been chained to walls, molested and
beaten, police sources said.
The raid in Katsina was the third such operation in less
than a month, bringing the total of captives freed from abuse
this month alone to about 1,000.
Two sources at the scene told Reuters that the owner of the
school and five of his staff had been arrested. Police declined
to comment on the raid.
The government is under pressure to take urgent action to
free the potentially thousands of other children who remain in
similar schools across Nigeria.