Nigeria kidnap crisis: Schoolboy recounts daring escape from bandits - BBC News

Musa Garba was one of more than 280 abducted last week, but he managed slip away from his captors.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage caption, Musa Garba was taken, along with more than 280 others, from his school in Kuriga, northern NigeriaBy Chris EwokorBBC News, KurigaMusa Garba,17, had to slither on the ground like a snake to avoid being detected by his kidnappers as he made his escape through the bush of northern Nigeria.

Earlier, camouflaged by his school uniform, the teenager had managed to hide in a heap of cut grass as the group of schoolchildren he was abducted with were taking a break from their forced trek.

More than 280 of them were snatched last week from a school in the town of Kuriga, in Kaduna state, traumatising a community.

"We saw motorbikes on the road. We thought they were soldiers, before we realised they had occupied the school premises and started shooting," Musa tells the BBC as he recalls Thursday morning's terrifying events. We have changed his name for his own safety, along with that of another kidnapped boy mentioned in the article.

"We tried to run away, but they chased us and caught us. They gathered us like cows into the bush."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68534319

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